<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_extra"><div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Jan 10, 2017 at 6:56 PM, Kristofer Munsterhjelm <span dir="ltr"></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">because it's<br>
better than just picking two Approval winners right out. </blockquote><div><br></div><div>You *should* pick the top two Approval (or Score) winners to go to the run-off. This isn't proportional representation. The goal of a single-winner election is to find the candidate who most closely matches (the entirety of) the population. If there has to be a runoff, then it should be between the two people who are most liked, because they are closest to the centroid of the population. This means they will likely be moderates from the same party, and that's a good thing because that's where the average voter leans, too. Then voters can then choose between the two based on hairstyle or whatever.<br></div><br></div></div></div>