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Re:Politics is bad because we use an 18th century voting system by macawfish on Friday June 01, 2018 @11:32AM (#17206248)
Arrow's theorem only applies to ordinal voting systems. Approval voting is a cardinal system to which Arrow's theorem doesn't apply.

So yeah... Math and everything! https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cardinal_voting

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