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This is actually completely backwards. IRV favors extremists whereas approval voting tends to find the most broadly appealing candidate. https://m.youtube.com/

• slownews45 5y ago
  That's not how its working here. We are getting near 100% representation from about 56% of votes. The ballot is approval style voting, you can vote for X of Y candidates.
  • pxx 5y ago
    That's not approval voting. If X is equal to the number of open seats that's literally just the definition of multiple winner plurality voting. Approval voting is a single winner system.
  • xvedejas 5y ago
    if X is a fixed number, then it's not approval voting. In approval voting, there is no limit, either minimum or maximum, on the number of candidates you can vote for. If X is limited, then you get something a bit more like plurality voting, since the spoiler effect is in play.
  • jpfed 5y ago
    As others have said, if they're limiting the number of approvals you can make on your ballot, then that's not how approval voting is supposed to be administered. If they're just adding up each candidate's votes, that's not how approval is supposed to be tabulated in a multi-winner context (which is more complicated); see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Proportional_approval_voting https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Proportional_approval_voting
  • ClayShentrup 5y ago
    Approval voting means you can vote for as many as you want. It sounds like you're talking about at large plurality voting.