RCV found unconstitutional in Maine.
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@cfrank Yes, but "choose-any" was selected on the basis of being clear (it rolls off the tongue less well than "approval" I'd say), so it really needs to do that job perfectly before we get on to how well it rolls off the tongue.
Edit - I'd say "choose any number" is a little bit less clunky than "choose however many", but neither are great in that respect.
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@wolftune Individual people going off and creating their own terms is not going to result in a larger movement wide change.
If that's a quest you care about then you'd need to get consensus from CES, CA Approves, Fargo Approves, Utah Approves, SL Approves, etc. -- which is not going to happen, imo.
I also don't think it should happen. Approval voting already has a solid one word self explanatory name that people know, and that's used in both academic and voter level contexts. That's a huge advantage!
Changing that is not worth it for questionable gains at best. I think it would do a lot of damage to try, and I think the failed efforts to market "pick all that you like" voting illustrate that.
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