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Hah, I know! The biggest drawback is that Approval/Freedom Voting doesn't have a good name! I would have named it Binary Voting, since you can think of it as voting yes/no on every candidate, but even then I'm not sure how good a name that is.
But hell, if naming it 🦅Freedom Voting🦅 is what gets us voting reform? I'm all for it.
Personally, I don't think any voting system is enough to break the duopoly, you need to have multi-seat and/or proportional representation, but it's a good first step. Approval is great for single-winner elections and it's very easy to tweak for multi-winner and proportional elections, so it's a no-brainer when you're thinking multiple steps ahead.
I love calling it freedom voting because this means that we can claim that any opponents are against "freedom and voting."
Republicans have done this for decades using "freedom," "Patriotism," and other terms. They can try to pass a bill to allow straight white Christians to discriminate against anyone they want and will call it the "Increasing Freedom Bill." Then, they'll say that any Democrats voting against it obviously hate freedom.
Time to give them a little of their own medicine.