UN Approval Voting

[Clay Shentrup]

Greg Dennis argues:

UN isn't an approval voting election. There are non-binding approval straw polls taken, but it also proceeds in rounds with successive elimination of weaker candidates. So it's as much RCV-like as approval-like. But mostly it's decided in backroom negotiations, not by ballots.

[Warren D Smith]

That had not been my impression. My impression was no "elimination" and
if rounds then only the final round is published and counts (if any), leaving
the existence of any other rounds unsupported by evidence even if true.
How does he claim to know about other, elimination, rounds?

While the rules were not exactly the same as approval voting, I thought they
effectively were pretty much the same because the differences were likely not to
arise. It is like, if we play chess with the extra rule that en
passant captures
are forbidden if, 2 moves ago, somebody captured a bishop with a rook. Well,
in 99% of chess games, that rule is never going to affect us.




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