One issue seems to be domination by majority?
For example, let's say 55% of electorate is hard left, 45% moderate to conservative.
Under approval those 55% can vote for all 3 lets say hard left candidates, no moderate's make it in?
RCV, once someone has gotten their candidate in, their vote is exhausted. Seems to come out much better. Still might end up with 2 hard left, one moderate, but that seems fairer to me.
The ballot is approval style voting, you can vote for X of Y candidates.
Approval voting is a single winner system.
If they're just adding up each candidate's votes, that's not how approval is supposed to be tabulated in a multi-winner context (which is more complicated); see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Proportional_approval_voting
I think the appeal of the simple ballot is what drove adoption (ie, vote for as many as you like, top X win).
In California the trick is they treat all open seats as one office.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Multiple_non-transferable_vote
> RCV, once someone has gotten their candidate in, their vote is exhausted.
Hi, Australian here. What happens with multi-winner single transferable vote is that there's a _quota_ and then ballots for candidates who have reached quota get _reweighted_ (not quite the same thing).
This quota-and-reweighting system can (and must!) be applied to multi-winner Approval too - jpfed linked the wiki article.