[cpeterso]

I think Approval voting would solve a lot of the first-past-the-post voting while also being much easier to explain to non-math nerd voters than IRV or Condorcet voting: just give every candidate a thumbs up or down. :)

Oakland switched their mayoral election to IRV (maybe ten years ago?) and it was so misunderstood that even one of the candidates recommended that his supporters vote for him in every IRV rank position! (Or perhaps he just didn't want to recommend his supporters even think about the other candidates names?)