Even if Approval Voting were the consensus, it faces marketing and organizational hurdles not faced by IRV/FairVote. I'd rather push for using a limited form of approval voting in the first stage of IRV (and Am forms of PR) and trusting that once IRV becomes the standard for single-winner elections that there'd be an easier time for more alternatives to the new status quo to get a much more fair hearing.
dlw
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