Many U.S. single-winner elections ask you to do something oddly narrow: pick exactly one name, even if you would be perfectly fine with two or three. That design choice is not a law of nature. It is a rule, and like any rule, it shapes behavior.
Approval voting rewrites that rule in the simplest possible way. Instead of forcing you to choose a single favorite, it lets you vote for every candidate you find acceptable. No ranking. No second round built into the method. No complicated tabulation. Just a ballot that admits a basic fact about voters: sometimes more than one option would be okay.
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