Craig Carey wrote: > > I was imposing a constraint that the counts be integral. > > How would you argue that such aa constraint should be imposed?. Bart Ingles: > The only constraint with approval voting is that a voter is allowed one > vote per candidate. I should have said "The only constraint with approval voting is that a voter is allowed to give either 0 or 1 vote to a given candidate." It would be possible to have a system where the voter is allowed to give a fractional vote between 0 and 1 to a candidate, but it would never make sense to vote that way -- optimal strategy is always to give either 0 or 1 votes. Thus the system would be equivalent to approval voting, except that the additional possibilities might confuse ignorant voters.
