Hacker News new | ask | show | jobs
by ClayShentrup 1264 days ago
> approval voting doesn't allow you to express your preferences very well

yes it does, in the aggregate. because the people who approve only X or only Y will statistically have a pretty similar X-vs-Y preference as all other voters (who approved both or neither).

https://medium.com/election-science/expressiveness-6ef8c034b...

and because approval voting uses the preferences it does have more accurately than IRV, it ends up being much more accurate, as measured by voter satisfaction efficiency simulations.

https://rpubs.com/Jameson-Quinn/vse6