# ApprovalVotingForPresident.com

## What is Approval Voting?

This is how we do it now:
![Plurality voting as Radio box example]()

This is how we could be doing it:
![Approval voting as Checkbox example]()

### This is better!

#### Less susceptible to extreme candidates exploiting First Past the Post voting paradoxes.

#### Helps smaller parties demonstrate support.

This creates more choices in political platforms for citizens!

America is *all about* having freedom of choice, right? Well if we want to claim the title of strongest democracy, we need to earn it!

#### Removes the need to have party primaries at all.

### What about instant run-off voting ("ranked choice voting")?
Ranked choice voting *is* an improvement over "just pick one" (plurality voting).

But there are still a few reasons to prefer Approval Voting:

#### 1. It leaves more people happy.

This can be objectively measured as lower Bayesian regret.

#### 2. It can still be run decentralized.

It's much more complex to run Instant-Runoff Voting in a decentralized way, as we do now with individual voting precents.

#### 3. It's simpler for voters

You can maintain basically the same ballot. The only change from how we do it now is instructing "pick all who apply" instead of "just pick one".

## What about range voting?

![range voting picture]()

Range voting is even better than approval voting!

It takes into account more information about which candidates are liked/disliked.

It can still be run entirely decentralized.

The only downsides: it's a little bit more complicated, ballots needs to change to add the numbers 0 - 9.

If you know all voters will understand the rules, range voting is probably an even better option than approval voting!

(Approval voting is just a simplified version of range voting, where your only options are 0 vs 1.)

## What about the Electoral College?

I don't want to get into this.

There are good reasons both to remove and support the EC system.

But in either case, we could use Approval Voting: with the Electoral College, or for a National Popular Vote.

Either way, Approval Voting would improve things for nearly everyone.