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Oh absolutely! Especially in non-representational voting systems like in the US. Australia has order of preference (ranking) so you can't throw your vote away and NZ has MMP to evenly distribute half the party seats by % of the population that votes for them.

American voting is pretty next to useless. I did a whole video on that:

https://battlepenguin.com/politics/video/does-voting-make-a-...




I like the ongoing debate between different voting schemes. I prefer approval voting over other things like RCV/IRV -- it reflects "average" percentages of approval directly and results in the least dissatisfaction, averaged across the population. No spoiler effects, which still exist in FPTP and RCV.

The most interesting and IMO overlooked part is how easy it is to communicate to the voter how they should vote. Approval voting is easy -- at the top of the ballot just say "check the box next to each name of the person who you approve of, and check as many as you like".




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