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Re:Maine Becomes First State to Use Ranked-Choice Voting in ... by lukifer on Friday October 30, 2020 @02:41PM (#24945492)
I second Approval Voting for similar reasons. In addition to the simplicity, IMO it sidesteps Arrow's Impossibility Theorem [0] by redefining the success condition: rather than trying to accurately capture political preferences, Approval inherently maximizes Consent of the Governed.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arrow%27s_impossibility_theore...

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