<html><head></head><body><div style="color:#000; background-color:#fff; font-family:Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, Lucida Grande, sans-serif;font-size:13px"><div id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1541854939423_6466" dir="ltr"><span id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1541854939423_6465">I think some people take an approval for a candidate as a "vote", which a voter should only have one of, but this does seem superficial. There's no reason why "one person one vote" should mean "name one candidate then shut up", or if you do want to interpret it like that, then it's not a principle you should want to hold onto. In any case, would those that consider approval voting a violation of "one person one vote" consider score voting to be a similar violation? In score voting, you're not casting votes for candidates as such, rather just giving them a score out of a set number. However, approval voting is just the most basic form of score voting with scores out of 1. Viewed like that, it seems less like a violation.</span></div><div class="qtdSeparateBR" id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1541854939423_6451"><br><br></div><div class="yahoo_quoted" id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1541854939423_6391" style="display: block;"> <div id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1541854939423_6390" style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, Lucida Grande, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"> <div id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1541854939423_6389" style="font-family: HelveticaNeue, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, Lucida Grande, Sans-Serif; font-size: 16px;"> <div id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1541854939423_6448" dir="ltr"> <font id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1541854939423_6449" face="Arial" size="2"> <hr size="1" id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1541854939423_6450"> <b><span style="font-weight: bold;">From:</span></b> ⸘Ŭalabio‽ <Walabio@MacOSX.Com><br> <b><span style="font-weight: bold;">To:</span></b> EM <election-methods@lists.electorama.com>; Sennet Williams <sennetwilliams@yahoo.com> <br> <b><span style="font-weight: bold;">Sent:</span></b> Saturday, 10 November 2018, 21:24<br> <b><span style="font-weight: bold;">Subject:</span></b> Re: [EM] News wanted about Maine's election.<br> </font> </div> <div class="y_msg_container" id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1541854939423_6388"><br><div id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1541854939423_6447" dir="ltr"> 12018-11-09T21:59:37, "Sennet Williams" <<a href="mailto:sennetwilliams@yahoo.com" ymailto="mailto:sennetwilliams@yahoo.com">sennetwilliams@yahoo.com</a>>:<br></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1541854939423_6446" dir="ltr"><br></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1541854939423_6387" dir="ltr">> about approval voting:? ?IRV voters obviously get only one vote each,? I suppose we will find it how the court treats approval.<br></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1541854939423_6415" dir="ltr"><br></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1541854939423_6445" dir="ltr"> "1 Person, 1 vote” means equal voting strength. Approval gives each voter 1 vote per candidate. That is fine. What would be illegal would be giving some people more voting power, such as giving reach people up to a zillion votes per candidate.<br></div><div dir="ltr">----<br></div><div dir="ltr">Election-Methods mailing list - see <a href="http://electorama.com/em" target="_blank">http://electorama.com/em </a>for list info<br></div><br><br></div> </div> </div> </div></div></body></html>