Just to clarify, is your rebuttal essentially: "No system is perfect, so we shouldn't investigate better systems?"
I personally like approval the best primarily because it is extremely simple. All systems that meat the Condorcet criteria are too complicated IMO.
It also has the advantage over IRV that the votes can be tabulated at each polling place, rather than needing to be done centrally, which means both fewer changes to the current polling system as well as lower impact of fraud.
I personally like approval the best primarily because it is extremely simple. All systems that meat the Condorcet criteria are too complicated IMO.
It also has the advantage over IRV that the votes can be tabulated at each polling place, rather than needing to be done centrally, which means both fewer changes to the current polling system as well as lower impact of fraud.