At least two people on my blogroll approve of approval voting. Time for me to get with the online program.
To the very minor extent I care about electoral reform, I wholeheartedly endorse approval voting. One simple change (vote for as many candidates as you like) eliminates many of problems with and for minor candidates. I don’t understand why anyone likes complicated and problematical alternatives with terrible user interfaces.
Thanks for citing the San Francisco supes ballot; I was wondering what it looked like.
[...] 217;t think it’s within the authority of Congress to require it – and thereby forbid approval voting which I like better still. No Comme [...]
[...] I wouldn’t expect it to. At a minimum you need something like approval voting or at the extreme delegable proxy voting. I’ve always found such reforms curious but distracting, as I don’t know what their impact on policy outcomes would be, and I suspect they’d be small. However given that voters are not outcome oriented I wonder if being able to make a closer to their ideal expression when oting would make voters happier, at least for time they are in the voting booth. [...]
[...] friend Mike Linksvayer links to some good info about voting methods. See in particular why the problem of [...]
Make that 3 http://benlog.com/articles/2010/02/27/what-the-oscars-teach-us-about-voting/