[EM] the "bullet voting" bogeyman for range/approval voting

[Warren Smith]

The idea has been raised (mainly by instant runoff proponents at FairVote
and based apparently intense intuition but zero evidence)
that approval or range voting will in practice degenerate to plurality voting.

Preliminary indications, based on evidence, are that this is not so:
    http://rangevoting.org/BulletBugaboo.html

However the amount of evidence presented there, is not all that large.
I believe one can get more data...  but I haven't yet.  Suggest some more?
[In particular, I am looking for some IRV elections for which we have
full ballot data,
in which vote-truncation was allowed, with
  * 8 candidates
  * 17 candidates
and several thousand or more voters, and reasonably important, to compare
with some approval voting elections.  Suggest?]


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Warren D. Smith
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