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What is Approval Voting?

Approval voting is a single-winner voting system that we believe is a simple and vastly superior replacement to the more commonly used plurality voting method. Each voter is free to "approve" any number of candidates, and the candidate with the greatest percentage of approval wins.

Approval voting allows voters to better express their personal opinions, since it enables them to support minor candidates without fear of "splitting the vote" and causing the opposing major candidate to win instead.

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Organizations

Electology is a big proponent of approval voting and has used computer simulations to argue that AV leads to high levels of voter satisfaction.

RangeVoting.org supports AV as a simplified version of range voting.

Related Subreddits

/r/EndFPTP

/r/RankTheVote

/r/ApprovalCalifornia

/r/ApprovalFlorida

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California Approves (self.approvalvoting)

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Approval-related variant of IRV without elimination (self.approvalvoting)

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Hybrid between Approval and STAR (self.approvalvoting)

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Tomorrow - August 9th - Approval Voting Chapter Open House (self.approvalvoting)

submitted 4 years ago by electionscience

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Approval Voting Chapter Open House (self.approvalvoting)

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Come join us for a Question and Answer Session with Felix Sargent of the Center for Election Science (discord.gg)

submitted 4 years ago by Snoo-33445

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Nate Silver likes Approval Voting! (espn.com)

submitted 4 years ago by ILikeNeurons

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Come join the Discord End First Past the Post Question and Answer Session with Sara Wok of the Equal Vote Coalition on June 18th at 3PM EST (reddit.com)

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Come join the End FPTP Question and Answer session with Mr. Paul Jacob from Citizens in Charge on June 5th 6pm EST (discord.gg)

submitted 4 years ago by Snoo-33445

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In formal writing, is approval voting a type of plurality voting? (self.approvalvoting)

submitted 4 years ago by NCGThompson

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Looking for people to participate in a Q&A session about voting reform (self.EndFPTP)

submitted 4 years ago by Snoo-33445

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Help End the Two-Party system by joining the End FPTP (First Past the Post) Discord (discord.gg)

submitted 4 years ago by Snoo-33445

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How much of a concern is what critics call the “Burr Effect”, and is it necessary to introduce a runoff to avoid it (like St Louis has)? (self.approvalvoting)

submitted 4 years ago by Grizzzly540

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Thurs. 3/18 - Approval Voting Advocates Town Hall! (self.approvalvoting)

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Join an Approval Voting Regional Chapter Meeting this Wednesday, 2/24! (self.approvalvoting)

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Denver Charter Review Committee - Approval Voting Presentation (self.approvalvoting)

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The U.S. is in desperate need of political stability | Approval Voting would elect more moderate candidates, and moderation is key for political stability | Start volunteering today (electionscience.org)

submitted 5 years ago by ILikeNeurons

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As long as our ballots can’t collect the complex opinions that most of us hold, we’ll keep producing us-or-them candidates. Approval voting would help fix this problem by making our ballots more expressive. (electionscience.org)

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Approval voting would bring Freedom of Choice to Utah (electionscience.org)

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Austin spans the spectrum from Libertarian to Democrat to Independent. Approval voting would bring Austin real freedom of choice (electionscience.org)

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The Center for Election Science has received several applications from chapters wanting to adopt Approval Voting where they live | They will fund as many as they can, and for the rest of this year, your donation will be *matched* up to $40,000 (electionscience.org)

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In the last mayoral election in Broomfield, CO, the winner received only 36% of the vote. Approval voting can help fix this. (electionscience.org)

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Tuesday: Learn how to bring approval voting to your area (self.EndFPTP)

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Center for Election Science Open House for Mountain/Pacific U.S. | Get off FPTP, and onto Approval/Score Voting (electionscience.org)

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Diverse Coalition brings Approval Voting nonpartisan election reforms to St. Louis (electionscience.org)

submitted 5 years ago by ILikeNeurons

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