The (now with random tiebreaking) Bolson pictures pretty interesting. Approval with mean-as-threshold (at least with Bolson's utility function) is doing some pretty weird stuff! But "approval with poll" looks very well behaved, at least in these examples (although I do not think it'll be that nice always).
So, I'm worried about approval with mean-base-thresholding. Seems to me there are grounds to worry approval voting can get us into trouble if voters behave that way (and ditto range voting, therefore) and ought to try to undertsand what is going on there... wds ---- election-methods mailing list - see http://electorama.com/em for list info
