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Yeah, preference-based voting is better, but you have to play the hand you're dealt in the meantime. Even dealing with gerrymandering seems to be beyond feasible politics.
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no, approval voting is drastically better than ranking.

1. greater voter satisfaction, with virtually any ratio of strategic to honest voting. (i.e. "more resistant to strategy")

2. drastically simpler. (same ballot, precinct summable, lower kolmogorov complexity)

3. transparent: each result is a simple scalar sum of support, so third party and independent candidates don't have their support hidden from view.

https://web.archive.org/web/20190219005733/https://sites.goo...

https://clayshentrup.medium.com/the-only-voting-reform-worth...

approval voting has worked great in fargo and st louis. https://approval.vote/




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