Approval voting
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Approval voting is a single-winner rated voting system where voters approve of any number of candidates named on a ballot, and the candidate with the most votes is victorious. The method is designed t
Rows of secret approval vote boxes from early 1900s Greece, where the voter drops a marble to the right or left of the box, through a tube, one for each candidate standing
Strategic voting
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Strategic or tactical voting is voting in consideration of possible ballots cast by other voters in order to maximize one's satisfaction with the election's results. Gibbard's theorem shows that no vo
Approval voting
…helps the candidate they least desire to beat their second-favorite and perhaps win. Approval technically allows for but is strategically immune to push-over and burying. Bullet voting occurs when a voter approves only candidate "a" instead of both "a" and "b" for the reason that voting for "b" can cause "a…
Stenciling on a Parisian sidewalk ahead of the first round of the 2017 French presidential election invoking "votez utile" (strategic voting) as a reason for voters to vote for François Fillon instead of Emmanuel Macron