[EM] Fargo North Dakota USA many adopt Approval Voting.

[Richard Lung]

Howdy yourself,

Yes, you are (mostly) right about IRV or Alternative Vote. The 
Australians, who have it, say that it just puts the post in first past 
the post. But I get the impression that approval voting is just 
cumulative voting rebranded, where x-votes count against each other: 
more is less. Pot calls kettle black.
Ranked choice is a necessary tho not sufficient condition of "effective 
voting."
I have my own axes to grind on electoral reform and research.
A natural concern about IRV (not entirely foreign to this email group) 
is that the public will throw the baby of ranked choice voting out with 
the bath-water of simple plurality counting, when they find out IRV does 
not make much difference.
(Editor:)
John Stuart Mill: Proportional Representation is Personal Representation.
The Angels Weep: H. G. Wells on Electoral Reform.
(Richard Lung:)
Peace-making Power-sharing;
Scientific Method of Elections.
Science is Ethics as Electics.
FAB STV: Four Averages Binomial Single Transferable Vote.
(in French) Modele Scientifique du Proces Electoral.


On 27/10/2018 18:57, ⸘Ŭalabio‽ wrote:
> 	⸘Howdy‽
>
> 	Fargo may adopt the good Voting System Approval Voting.*  Expect the Fair-Vote People to do everything in their power to stop this (Fair Vote pushes the bad voting system Instant Runoff Voting which transfers all votes to the top-2 parties, thus being a falser reform designed to ensure 2-party domination).
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> 	Here is the story:
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> 	http://reason.com/blog/2018/10/26/fargo-considers-whether-to-turn-local-el
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> 	*	Instructions for Approval Voting:
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> 	0.	Find the worst and best candidates.
> 	1.	Approve all candidates closer to the best candidate than the worse candidate.
> 	2.	Leave unknown Candidates unapproved.
>
> 	¡Peace!
>