With approval voting, a voter faces an impossible to solve dilemma. If they hate one candidate a lot, and like one candidate a lot, should they approve all cand

With approval voting, a voter faces an impossible to solve dilemma. If they hate one candidate a lot, and like one candidate a lot, should they approve all candidates except the one they hate, or only approve the one candidate they like? With strength of preferences, some people will give their scores as 2,3,4 (out of 5) because nobody is perfect and nobody is truly the worst imaginable. But other people will give out scores 1,3,5 if they feel that has more effect, or because the are comfortable using score extremes everywhere else in life - with no real difference in the strength of conviction between those two groups of people. And some people will use only 1,5 because they think giving every candidate except the one you hate a 5 increases the chance of the one you hate not getting in, even if they don't really like any of the others, or like one more than the others. It doesn't mean they are "pro" any of the candidates. And some will give their favoured candidate 5 and everyone else 1 or 2.