[EM] Approval vs. IRV

[Matthew Dempsky]

Brian Olson <bql at bolson.org> writes:

> If they get 10% of whatever PR body, that's fine and there's no need
> to augment that with anything else.
>
> For a single seat, I think the vast majority would be poorly served by
> four years of office holding by a tiny majority. I'm even more scared
> of tyrannies by minorities. (If you consider US non-voters and the
> current absolutist power-politics, we already have that. Rule by a
> quarter or less.) I think in all cases we're trying to move the
> democratic process to be more democratic and better represent as many
> people as possible. That's why we want an election method that can
> find the compromise choice that serves 60% of the people when we might
> otherwise get some faction's 40% or 41% choice.

Thank you for posting that.  I had wanted to respond with something
similar, but the best wording eluded me, and I think you did a much
better job than I could have.