Jack Nagel of the School of Arts & Sciences commented on a St. Louis proposition that would establish approval voting in local primaries. “It may be that some people only approve of one candidate,” he said. “But if there are genuinely two or more candidates that you think would do a good job, but you only vote for one of them, if everybody does that the system collapses to the conventional voting and you may get narrowly supported winners again.”

October 23, 2020 ・ From NPR