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How can approval voting suffer from this defect? Is the idea here that we factor in people who don’t vote for things they actually favor because they’re hoping
by dodobirdlord 5y ago
How can approval voting suffer from this defect? Is the idea here that we factor in people who don’t vote for things they actually favor because they’re hoping to avoid tipping the result away from something they favor even more? Or do you mean an election could end up selecting a result that is favored by the majority even though there is a different result that is more favored by a smaller majority?
- Turing_Machine 5y agohttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Approval_voting#Effect_on_elections https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Approval_voting#Effect_on_elec...
- DennisP 5y agoBut from that link, this is considered an advantage "by advocates of approval voting, as it chooses centrist candidates with broad appeal rather than polarizing candidates who appeal only to the majority."
- Turing_Machine 5y agoThat the system's advocates see it as an advantage does not alter the fact that others see it as a severe disadvantage. I assure you that if a person's preferred candidate loses under this system, while that candidate would have won under a straight majority/plurality system, that person is going to be extremely upset.
- DennisP 5y agoYes, people have differing opinions. I thought it was a reasonable point though. If the criterion for a good voting system is that it should provide the same results as plurality, then I guess we should just use plurality. But I don't think that's a very good criterion.
- ClayShentrup 5y agoThe people who see it as a disadvantage are just objectively mathematically wrong.