[EM] Approval Voting

[Bart Ingles]

DEMOREP1 at aol.com wrote:
> 
> Craig Carey asked in Re: [EM] Journals on the Internet---
> 
> Are people writing to this list advocating some "Approval Vote" method?.
> Isn't it one of the very worst methods around?.
> ----
> D- It is a lower tech major improvement over simple plurality (especially if
> there is a majority requirement) pending the higher tech use of head to head
> number voting (which needs computers for large scale elections).
> 
> See the chief AV website at--
> 
> http://bcn.boulder.co.us/government/approvalvote/center.html


Beyond the links available at that site, you might also look for Samuel
Merrill, *Making Multicandidate Elections More Democratic*, 1988
Princeton University Press, 149 pp.   Very readable, compares several
voting systems under various modeling & strategy assumptions.