<div>David,</div><div><br></div><div>My strongest feeling about your recently proposed system is that the "three" is so arbitrary.</div><div><br></div><div>What if there are eight candidates running, and I really like five of them? Then approving three might not be enough. I know you said that real elections only seem to have four strong candidates, but the current republican primary seems to have at least seven totally legitimate candidates in the race. Both 2008 primaries were the same way. Sure, the press is constantly trying to whittle it down to about four. But why should we let the press do the whittling? Shouldn't that be done by the voting system in some way? Should we use a different system for these larger elections?</div>
<div><br></div><div>If there are only three candidates running, then the AV step does nothing. If there are four candidates running, then the AV step is really anti-plurality.</div><div><br></div><div>And as Kathy pointed out, you'd still better tell people that it's not safe to put their favorite first.</div>
<div><br></div><div>~ Andy</div>