[EM] Voting Theory and Populism

[Raph Frank]

On Sun, Oct 19, 2008 at 3:12 AM, Diego Santos <diego.renato at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi Raph,
>
> 2008/10/18 Raph Frank <raphfrk at gmail.com>
>> What strategy is it designed to protect against?
>
> Improved Approval Runoff is a trying to fix Two-round runoff, to avoid cases
> like 2002 French presidential election. You can approve your favourite
> candidate with low chances of winning, and other satisfactory frontrunner.

Why can't you do that in by just using approval + top 2 run off, why
the need to have the half vote reweighting?