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Good luck with this! I think approval voting is the bees knees! My locality just passed ranked voting, which is an improvement but I would really have preferred approval voting instead.
Yeah, anything is better than "choose one," but you should really fix it right the first time, you know? Plus, Approval is more adaptable to alternate representation systems, like proportional or multi seat elections.
I'm going to be so stoked if we hit our funding goal, getting Approval into a state constitution would be HUGE.
I'll admit that I personally like ranked choice voting more because it lets you see how many people choose Candidate A as #1, #2, etc. Still, I get that this can be complicated for some voters and we want to make things as easy as possible for them.
Whether a place goes ranked choice or approval, they're still doing better than if they stayed with First Past The Post.