[EM] Anyone got a good analysis on limitations of approval and range voting? (long)

[Raph Frank]

On Tue, Nov 10, 2009 at 10:37 AM, Kristofer Munsterhjelm
<km-elmet at broadpark.no> wrote:
> IMHO, it is that you need concurrent polling in order to consistently elect
> a good winner. If you don't have polling and thus don't know where to put
> the cutoff (between approve and not-approve), you'll face the Burr dilemma:
> If you prefer A > B > C, if you "approve" both A and B, you might get B
> instead of A, but if you "approve" only A, you might get C!

However, the same logic can be applied to plurality voting.  If people
had to vote blind, then the results would be even worse.

History with plurality has shown that it is reasonable to expect
people to know who the top-2 candidates are.