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> "From everything I can tell it still is supportive of cardinal methods broadly, but as a political tactic has honed in on approval voting specifically due to its Pareto optimality."

Hmmm... the notion of Pareto optimality is driving political tactics (about what voting method to back)? I know what it means, and it seems strange to me. This suggests that a specialized economic term was used as a motivation for a tactical political decision.

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CES was originally a research-based organization, but recently shifted to advocating Approval Voting and trying to get it implemented. (I think they should rename as the Center for Approval Voting.)

Their forum and Google Group for discussion of voting systems were good resources, but are now being shut down

https://forum.electionscience.org/t/archiving-the-forum-july...

https://groups.google.com/g/electionscience

"This change reflects CES’s gradual evolution from an academic organization to an advocacy organization."

A volunteer-run forum has been created to replace it, but is pretty quiet so far.

https://www.votingtheory.org/

http://reddit.com/r/EndFPTP is also a good "non-partisan" resource, as well as https://electowiki.org/wiki/Main_Page