Approval voting has a special place in my heart because it is such an easy transition from first-past-the-post (what the U.S. uses). You literally just change the ballot from “select the candidate you like” to select the candidates (plural) you like" and you’re done, and it’s such a significant upgrade from FPTP.
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fubo@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Approval voting is similar to this. Instead of voting for one candidate, you vote for every candidate who is acceptable to you. The winner is the candidate who is acceptable to the most voters.
sp6@lemmy.world 1 year ago
nix@merv.news 1 year ago
Exactly, but I think Approval Voting needs a Downvote option as well, so exceptionally bad candidates can be disapproved of by a voter. So a candidate that doesn’t excite you doesn’t get the same “points” from you as a candidate that wants to be a dictator.
chaogomu@kbin.social 1 year ago
The downvote option turns it from Approval into Score.
I personally like STAR, which is Score, but then adds in some extra features to make it all work better.
stallmer@sopuli.xyz 1 year ago
They wouldn’t though, right? Presumably you’d vote for the one that doesn’t excite you and not the one that wants to be a dictator…