[EM] Answers regarding claim about Approval's enact-ability

[Jameson Quinn]

2012/4/16 robert bristow-johnson <rbj at audioimagination.com>

> On 4/16/12 8:25 PM, Jameson Quinn wrote:
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>> 2012/4/16 Richard Fobes <ElectionMethods at votefair.org <mailto:
>> ElectionMethods@**votefair.org <ElectionMethods at votefair.org>>>
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>>    On 4/16/2012 12:50 PM, robert bristow-johnson wrote:
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>>        On 4/16/12 12:42 PM, Richard Fobes wrote:
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>>            As I recall the issue is that I stated in a previous
>>            message that
>>            Approval voting was very unlikely to be adopted for use in
>>            U.S.
>>            Presidential _general_ elections. Here are some reasons:
>>
>>            1: Making that change requires adopting a Constitutional
>>            Amendment.
>>
>>
>>        not precisely. there is a going state compact movement that will
>>        essentially make the Electoral College a figurehead. it will
>>        exist, but
>>        it will be powerless. and it doesn't need a Constitutional
>>        amendment,
>>        because the Constitution says that the state legislatures have the
>>        exclusive authority in defining how the presidential electors are
>>        chosen.  ...
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>>    > ...
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>>    Notice that the "state compact movement" specifies that the
>>    state's electoral votes goes to the candidate with the "most votes."
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>> Yes, the current compact which has been adopted by several states is to
>> use a nationwide plurality vote. However, a compact to use approval voting
>> could, in theory, be adopted by those same states, and the wording could be
>> such that the approval contact supercedes the plurality one as soon as
>> states representing enough electoral votes sign onto the approval one.
>>
>
> but how do the states adopting the compact know who the true Approval
> winner is when state who haven't adopted the compact do not supply the full
> approval data, since voting for more than one spoils their ballots?  would
> it just accept those numbers as single approvals on every ballot?
>
> Yes. Note that this would provide an additional incentive for states to
join the compact.


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