On 6/30/07, Thomas Dalton <thomas.dalton(a)gmail.com> wrote:
Alison is talking about how one makes their choice of
who to vote for,
she isn't talking about how the voting system works. Approval voting
is just a yes/no vote on each candidate and the one(s) with the most
yes's (or least no's, it is, indeed, the same thing) wins. If you
really hate one candidate, your best bet is to vote for everyone
except that candidate.
This would only be true if you had no idea who else had a chance of
winning. Even without the pre-election we are not so foolish.