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IRV actually has the opposite problem: "If I vote for my ideal candidate, am I impairing the good candidate's chance of winning?" For instance, if it were Nader/Gore/Bush with 26%/…

Arrow's theorem applies only to ordinal voting methods. Approval is not actually subject to Arrow's theorem; it's not even well-defined whether it passes the criteria. However, the…

Sortition (that is, random selection) is a system for roughly-proportional representation; that is, for choosing multiple winners for a legislature so as to represent a population.…

The "favorite betrayal" criterion is defined mathematically. In your scenario, as long as you approve Ideal, you are not betraying your favorite, even if you also approve Good. The…

The article focuses on approval versus IRV, and the advantages it gives for approval are valid. As you know, there are various other methods (Condorcet, STAR, 3-2-1, etc.) that kee…

Unintentional spoilage and intentional tampering are two different things. There's nothing disingenuous about mentioning one of them but not the other. It's true that, depending on…

As others have noted, proportional representation (PR) is the best solution to gerrymandering. (Not arguing that we shouldn't also support second-best solutions like nonpartisan re…