[EM] explanation of next four postings

[James Green-Armytage]

Dear election methods fans,

	Recently Mike Ossipoff and I have sent a few messages back and forth
discussing approval voting. He asked that I post his replies to the EM
list, so I am doing so along with my messages that they have been
responding to.
	In summary, I am attacking approval voting, and he is defending it. I
give an example which I think represents an extremely broad array of
possible election scenario, an example which I think approval voting has
no effective way of handling.
	The topic began in a discussion about IRV. I think that I am less
intensely critical of IRV than Mike in part because, although I agree with
him that Condorcet is superior, I do not think that approval is superior,
and so don't see IRV advocacy as the blunder it would be if another option
was all at once cheaper, simpler, and better.
	However, so far, rather than defending IRV, which I know has some
significant flaws, most of my writing on this thread has been trying to
demonstrate that approval is a severely limited voting system for
multicandidate elections.
	I hope that some of this is of interest, and I look forward to your input.

my best,
James Green-Armytage