> In reality a voter will prefer one candidate over others and may have a secondary choice so not to see their vote lost. The approval voting means that if your

> In reality a voter will prefer one candidate over others and may have a secondary choice so not to see their vote lost. The approval voting means that if your candidate has a decent chance of winning, you will need to vote for this candidate only and no one else. That is, your voting will depend on how well your candidate is doing. All voting methods are affected by strategic voting. Approval voting, however, is relatively little affected by it compared to many other voting methods, such as ranked voting methods. > An alternative - if I can't have A, then I want B - is the ranked voting. It maps directly on what a voter wants and it doesn't require adjusting their voting strategy based on the standing of their preferred candidate. Ranked voting methods, while better than the first-past-the-post most of the world uses today, tend to suffer from many deficiencies. And while not a technical objection per se, excessive complexity eroding trust in democracy is a pretty big one as well. For a nice overview, see https://ncase.me/ballot/ https://ncase.me/ballot/ . In particular, see the chart showing the Bayesian regret simulations for different voting methods. In the presence of strategic voters, approval and score voting are the best methods, whereas with 100% honest voters score voting wins.