Every voter wants his or her sincere rankings of Desired > Compromise > Unacceptable. With a divided majority having different desired results, somebody has to lose. Simple Approval falsely says that all choices voted for are equally desired (e.g. Desired A = Desired B = Desired C, etc.). Simple IRV falsely says that the choice with the lowest number of first choice votes cannot be a Compromise choice (noting my 34 Hitler- 33 Stalin - 32 Washington example wherein Washington loses using IRV but is a Condorcet Winner). Sorry IRV fanatics, but in voting there is something called a head to head table (which is like saying there are other conic sections (ellipse, hyperbola, etc.) in addition to simple circles in geometry). Once again - use of rankings in p.r. elections will lead shortly to the use of rankings for executive and judicial offices (hopefully along with YES/NO votes on each choice for use as tiebreakers).
