If by 'approval voting' you mean that electoral model where each voter can give up to one vote to each candidate on the ballot, I'm all in! We need to find a ca

If by 'approval voting' you mean that electoral model where each voter can give up to one vote to each candidate on the ballot, I'm all in! We need to find a catchy name for that, too. IDK why ranked choice sees more adoption than approval voting. The former seems to have many advantages: it's easy to explain, it's easy to count. The voter gets the choice to say yes to no candidate at all or all candidates at once, if they think that's what they want. They can give votes to fringe candidates without being afraid to have wasted their precious singular vote. In contrast, ranked choice is harder to explain, uses more complicated ballots that are easier to inadvertently invalidate, and must either use an arbitrary number of ranked favorites (three being a frequent choice apparently) or else allow the use of numbers next to each candidate, or some system where voters somehow can arrange names in their preferred order (hardly possible on a paper ballot, awkward at best when presented with a screen with a longish list of names that will have to be ordered when shown first). Every single one of these options is on a spectrum of arbitrary to awkward to forbiddingly clumsy. [approval voting](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Approval_voting https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Approval_voting) [ranked choice voting](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ranked_voting https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ranked_voting)