Another Look at Approval Voting

Authors:
  • TATheodore S. Arrington
    Theodore S. Arrington
  • SBSaul Brenner
    Saul Brenner
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Abstract
Some of those who want to reform our present electoral system would replace plurality voting with approval voting. The proposed system has rarely been used in this country, and its adoption does not appear to be likely in the foreseeable future. It is then, basically, as an intellectual exercise that Professors Arrington and Brenner examine the case for approval voting in this article and find it wanting on a number of grounds, the most important of them being that it would unsettle our two-party system.