True that, while it does not give voters the power of Condorcet, Approval is a bit better than Plurality, for voters can vote for more than one candidate, avoiding the spoiler problem, but:
Does not complicate ballot papers if, as such are usually formatted, voters simply checked a single box in Plurality - and can check multiple boxes in Approval.
A race is still to elect a single mayor, governor, or dog catcher.
Candidate still needs something, usually campaigning, to get winning votes.
There still is likely to be a limit on quantity of candidates. New York State often has a theoretical limit of 20 (candidate must get signatures from 5% of the voters eligible to sign). Practical limit is lower than theoretical for: some refuse to sign any, some refuse to sign yours, another candidate got this voter's signature already.
Dave Ketchum
On Sun, 22 Dec 2002 05:14:06 +1300 Craig Carey wrote:
At 02\12\19 16:55 -0800 Thursday, Rob LeGrand wrote:--
>Howdy all,
>
>The Americans for Approval Voting website, authored by Rock Howard, is now
>up at http://www.approvalvoting.com/ . Check it out and tell us what you
>think!
>
>--
>Rob LeGrand
>[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>http://www.aggies.org/honky98/
>
Do let us know, Honkie (or Rock), when Approval will be out of the dark moist
mushroom growing rooms and into the minds fo the American public.
Would Rock flinch or pause, if asked to put online an artists depiction of
an Approval ballot paper that shows what the paper looks like when there are
at least 34 (or 25 or more) candidates competing ?.
Last time I checked your website, Mr Legrand, there was no example showing
what an Approval ballot paper looked like in an election where very many
candidates were standing for a single position or seat.
My hypothesis is that Rocky has a darkness-preferring movement that would not
show a simple ballot paper (e.g. an artists rendition of an Approval ballot
paper).
Can readers here supply a handdrawn picture (implying that supporting the
Approval campaign would be a ghastly mistake) to Rock for inclusion in the
new 'deemed by IRS to be charitable' website ?.
What are the criteria that will allow readers of this mailing list to check
that the whatever-it-was movement, will be a success ?.
If the contest is not close, and voters lack good information on the
opinions or votes of others in the election, and if there are many/enough
candidates, then Approval would be over some limit that politicians would
set, saying how much allocating of power, is unjustly large.
Certainly when the topic is total ignorance for the public, then it can be
very worse with the CVD, partly since they have many comments for various
cities.
G. A. Craig Carey
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Dave Ketchum 108 Halstead Ave, Owego, NY 13827-1708 607-687-5026
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