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Regarding your comment that: > consistently 80+% of voters 'bullet vote', or simply select one candidate St. Louis's election with Approval Voting in March 20
by troydavis 5y ago
Regarding your comment that:
> consistently 80+% of voters 'bullet vote', or simply select one candidate
St. Louis's election with Approval Voting in March 2021 seems to dispel that. In a Mayoral race with 4 candidates, voters approved an average of 1.56 candidates (https://stlouis-mo.gov/government/departments/board-election-commissioners/documents/election-results/upload/Mar21-Final-Official-Summary.pdf https://stlouis-mo.gov/government/departments/board-election...).
Voters understood and used the system, and they didn't bullet vote. 1.56 is a ton of additional expression.
As I wrote in https://twitter.com/SeattleApproves/status/1458920042842574849 https://twitter.com/SeattleApproves/status/14589200428425748..., with 15 Mayoral candidates in 2021, Seattle's average may be much higher. It's quite possibly the average will be above 2.