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Why CES Advocates for Approval Voting Instead of RCV | Center for Election Science
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How does this compare to first past the post? Does it make any difference in outcomes?
Reading the article it sounds simpler to me, but without weighting the selections (like ranked choice) it just sounds like Dems would select every Dem, and Republicans would just select every Republican - not really changing the outcome.
First past the post inherently reinforcers a two party system as voting for a third party benefits the parties that you least want. That's the spoiler effect.
Approval voting doesn't have that problem, so alternatives can actually show up and be viable.
RCV (actually IRV) has less of a spoiler effect than FPTP but it still has a substantial "centre squeeze" effect as moderate candidates
with broad support but few first preference votes
get eliminated early.
There are much better voting systems that actually attempt to identify the Condorcet winner. The only advantage AV or IRV have over Condorcet methods is simplicity
Ranked pairs is better than ranked choice.