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Re:U.S. Drops California Case Against Apple After Accessing ... by ClayShentrup on Thursday March 31, 2016 @10:30AM (#11397405)
The only system that's generally better is Score Voting aka Range Voting. But you want to _avoid_ ranked voting methods.

http://ScoreVoting.net/NESD.html

Re:U.S. Drops California Case Against Apple After Accessing ... by winstonewert on Thursday March 31, 2016 @05:33PM (#11400716)
I don't think the argument presented there works.

Consider the example with A, B, and C at the end. It claims that approval voting would probably elect C, but why? If the voters apply perfect strategy, B supporters won't approve C, and B will win. The same is true of range voting, where B supporters will give C a rating of zero.

It does not seem escapable that a majority voter block can dictate their wishes on the whole population by exaggerating their stated preferences.

Re:U.S. Drops California Case Against Apple After Accessing ... by eru on Friday April 01, 2016 @10:02PM (#11409870)
As long as you need a majority, that's still very democratic? (If it was a plurality only, that would be harder.)
Re:U.S. Drops California Case Against Apple After Accessing ... by winstonewert on Friday April 01, 2016 @11:25PM (#11410074)
Yes, but the page in question is arguing that approval/rank voting is better because it doesn't always elect the majority's first choice.
Re:U.S. Drops California Case Against Apple After Accessing ... by eru on Thursday March 31, 2016 @02:48PM (#11399555)
I'm pretty convinced that for single winner elections approval voting is pretty great.

I haven't convinced myself when multiple people can get elected.