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<blockquote data-quote="fusangite" data-source="post: 2061882" data-attributes="member: 7240">How many political jurisdictions in the world use approval voting? Compare that to the number that use proportional representation or majoritarian systems. Actually, it's an advocacy group for proportional representation. It just thinks that in instances where a single office is being filled, majoritarian systems are superior to plurality systems. Furthermore, I have no problem admitting that like every other voting system, people who support it in the political sphere are often people who believe they will benefit from its implementation. Explain how please.Your system only produces Condorcet victors when people indicate their preferences honestly without voting strategically. This isn't a psych experiment or a telephone opinion poll; people will vote strategically. I would be willing to bet that when people using your system vote strategically, approval voting is less likely to produce a Condorcet victor than majoritarian systems are. So while I acknowledge that under ideal conditions your system is more likely to produce a Condorcet victor, this is not really relevant in a contest wherein people will not be voting under those conditions.This is simply not an accurate description.You have stated this several times but you have yet to explain why. You also need to answer Umbran's question as to why a product about which the majority of voters know nothing should be allowed to beat a product the majority of voters know and use.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="fusangite, post: 2061882, member: 7240"] How many political jurisdictions in the world use approval voting? Compare that to the number that use proportional representation or majoritarian systems. Actually, it's an advocacy group for proportional representation. It just thinks that in instances where a single office is being filled, majoritarian systems are superior to plurality systems. Furthermore, I have no problem admitting that like every other voting system, people who support it in the political sphere are often people who believe they will benefit from its implementation. Explain how please.Your system only produces Condorcet victors when people indicate their preferences honestly without voting strategically. This isn't a psych experiment or a telephone opinion poll; people [i]will[/i] vote strategically. I would be willing to bet that when people using your system vote strategically, approval voting is less likely to produce a Condorcet victor than majoritarian systems are. So while I acknowledge that under ideal conditions your system is more likely to produce a Condorcet victor, this is not really relevant in a contest wherein people will not be voting under those conditions.This is simply not an accurate description.You have stated this several times but you have yet to explain why. You also need to answer Umbran's question as to why a product about which the majority of voters know nothing should be allowed to beat a product the majority of voters know and use. [/QUOTE]

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