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Re:What Is Voter Satisfaction Efficiency? by crazygringo on Wednesday June 23, 2021 @11:39AM (#27605776)
It's easy enough to have a scanner reject an invalid ballot and force you to fill out a new one. At least in NYC where I vote, you feed it into the scanner yourself.

And you've always been able to produce invalid ballots, like voting for two candidates when you're only allowed to pick one.

You're describing a UX problem which has UX solutions. It's not even remotely a justification for selecting a democratic procedure to express the will of the people.

Re:What Is Voter Satisfaction Efficiency? by obelos on Wednesday June 23, 2021 @12:06PM (#27606112)
Another benefit of Approval Voting ballots is you basically cannot spoil them. You can't rate/rank the same candidate more than once, and marking multiple candidates is valid.
Re:What Is Voter Satisfaction Efficiency? by kortex on Wednesday June 23, 2021 @06:23PM (#27611299)
> You're describing a UX problem which has UX solutions. It's not even remotely a justification for selecting a democratic procedure to express the will of the people.

Agreed but that's far from my only gripe with FPTP and IRV.