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<div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false">I don't think Approval strategy is overly burdensome. As an honest voter, you just pick your least favourite candidate to approve, so one decision. Approval has advantages outside the usual criterion compliance as well. The results of an approval election are easily published and digested, as with a FPTP election. It's simply a list of votes (approvals) for each candidate. I think this is worth more than it gets credit for. In a Condorcet election, how would the result be published? Every head-to-head separately? Also in a debate versus FPTP, approval is the only method that has no real disadvantages relative to FPTP. FPTP proponents can always fall back on saying their method is simple, much simpler than the proposed alternatives. Well, approval is essentially the same level of simplicity. FPTP passes the rarely passed participation criterion, which approval also does. FPTP proponents don't really have anywhere to go, except to make the spurious claim that approval violates one person, one vote. But this is easily countered.</div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false"><br></div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false">Toby</div><div><br></div>
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On Sunday, 17 March 2024 at 11:28:08 GMT, Kristofer Munsterhjelm <km_elmet@t-online.de> wrote:
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<div><div dir="ltr"><br clear="none">As for Approval, my position hasn't really changed: it is able to pass <br clear="none">so many criteria by offloading the burden of voting onto the voter <br clear="none">himself and by classifying a large swath of different ballots as all <br clear="none">"honest" (in the rank-consistent sense). Not only strategic voters have <br clear="none">to play the strategy game, but honest voters too[1]: just determining <br clear="none">which honest vote to submit requires strategy! With ranking, on the <br clear="none">other hand, it's easy: there's only one rank-consistent honest ballot, <br clear="none">so if you don't want to play the game, just submit that ballot. No <br clear="none">manual DSV needed.<br clear="none"><br clear="none">(See also Forest's explanation of my point at <br clear="none">http://lists.electorama.com/pipermail/election-methods-electorama.com/2016-October/000717.html.)<br clear="none"><br clear="none">-km<br clear="none"><br><div class="ydp2785b7ffyqt3697692244" id="ydp2785b7ffyqtfd51399"><br clear="none">----<br clear="none">Election-Methods mailing list - see <a shape="rect" href="https://electorama.com/em" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://electorama.com/em</a> for list info<br clear="none"></div></div></div>
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