[EM] Americans for Approval Voting

[Dave Ketchum]

Sorry Craig, but seems like you are asking a useless question - what makes 
you dream that Approval voting will result in candidates turning up in 
wholesale quantities?

True that, while it does not give voters the power of Condorcet, Approval 
is a bit better than Plurality, for voters can vote for more than one 
candidate, avoiding the spoiler problem, but:
      Does not complicate ballot papers if, as such are usually formatted, 
voters simply checked a single box in Plurality - and can check multiple 
boxes in Approval.
      A race is still to elect a single mayor, governor, or dog catcher.
      Candidate still needs something, usually campaigning, to get winning 
votes.
     There still is likely to be a limit on quantity of candidates.  New 
York State often has a theoretical limit of 20 (candidate must get 
signatures from 5% of the voters eligible to sign).  Practical limit is 
lower than theoretical for:  some refuse to sign any, some refuse to sign 
yours, another candidate got this voter's signature already.

Dave Ketchum

On Sun, 22 Dec 2002 05:14:06 +1300 Craig Carey wrote:

> At 02\12\19 16:55 -0800 Thursday, Rob LeGrand wrote:
>  >Howdy all,
>  >
>  >The Americans for Approval Voting website, authored by Rock Howard, is now
>  >up at http://www.approvalvoting.com/ .  Check it out and tell us what you
>  >think!
>  >
>  >--
>  >Rob LeGrand
>  >honky98 at aggies.org
>  >http://www.aggies.org/honky98/
>  >
> 
> 
> Do let us know, Honkie (or Rock), when Approval will be out of the dark 
> moist
> mushroom growing rooms and into the minds fo the American public.
> 
> Would Rock flinch or pause, if asked to put online an artists depiction of
> an Approval ballot paper that shows what the paper looks like when there are
> at least 34 (or 25 or more) candidates competing ?.
> 
> Last time I checked your website, Mr Legrand, there was no example showing
> what an Approval ballot paper looked like in an election where very many
> candidates were standing for a single position or seat.
> 
> My hypothesis is that Rocky has a darkness-preferring movement that 
> would not
> show a simple ballot paper (e.g. an artists rendition of an Approval ballot
> paper).
> 
> Can readers here supply a handdrawn picture (implying that supporting the
> Approval campaign would be a ghastly mistake) to Rock for inclusion in the
> new 'deemed by IRS to be charitable' website ?.
> 
> What are the criteria that will allow readers of this mailing list to check
> that the whatever-it-was movement, will be a success ?.
> 
> If the contest is not close, and voters lack good information on the
> opinions or votes of others in the election, and if there are many/enough
> candidates, then Approval would be over some limit that politicians would
> set, saying how much allocating of power, is unjustly large.
> 
> Certainly when the topic is total ignorance for the public, then it can be
> very worse with the CVD, partly since they have many comments for various
> cities.
> 
> 
> G. A. Craig Carey
> 

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