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Re:Ranked-Choice Voting Is More Democratic, Not Less by zajio1am on Wednesday May 25, 2022 @09:09AM (#31503997)
Approval voting is hard. My voting preferences pretty much match ranked-choice model, but approval requires reducing that to just two levels, so setting the bar is either arbitrary, or requires much information about decisions of other people.
Re:Ranked-Choice Voting Is More Democratic, Not Less by ClayShentrup on Friday May 27, 2022 @12:03PM (#31531182)
This is a common intuition-based fallacy. The total information throughput of approval voting is actually GREATER than for ranked methods, when you factor in the tabulation efficiency and tactical voting effects.

https://electionscience.org/library/expressiveness-in-approv...