Thomas Dalton 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.
It's not exactly a yes/no vote. If that were the case the option would
be between voting "yes" (=+1)if you really liked the person, voting
"no"
(=-1) if you really didn't like him, or not voting at all (=0) if it you
didn't care either way about the person. The dynamic could be quite
different.
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