{"id":1590,"date":"2017-02-16T18:52:32","date_gmt":"2017-02-16T18:52:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/courses.lumenlearning.com\/waymakermath4libarts\/?post_type=chapter&#038;p=1590"},"modified":"2020-04-23T17:21:57","modified_gmt":"2020-04-23T17:21:57","slug":"introduction-approval-voting","status":"publish","type":"chapter","link":"https:\/\/courses.lumenlearning.com\/mathforliberalartscorequisite\/chapter\/introduction-approval-voting\/","title":{"raw":"Introduction to Approval Voting","rendered":"Introduction to Approval Voting"},"content":{"raw":"<h2>What you\u2019ll learn to do:\u00a0Evaluate the fairness of the approval voting method<\/h2>\r\nUp until now, we\u2019ve been considering voting methods that require ranking of candidates on a preference ballot. There is another method of voting that can be more appropriate in some decision making scenarios.\r\n\r\n<a href=\"https:\/\/s3-us-west-2.amazonaws.com\/courses-images\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5207\/2017\/02\/23171359\/2560px-ElectoralCollege2016.svg_.png\"><img class=\"aligncenter wp-image-4723\" src=\"https:\/\/s3-us-west-2.amazonaws.com\/courses-images\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5207\/2017\/02\/23171359\/2560px-ElectoralCollege2016.svg_.png\" alt=\"Electoral College map showing results of the 2016 U.S. presidential election. Republican Donald Trump won the popular vote in 30 states (red) and in Maine's 2nd congressional district to capture 306 electoral votes. Democrat Hillary Clinton won the popular vote in 20 states (blue) plus D.C. to capture 232 electoral votes. Of these, seven were cast by faithless electors\u2014two pledged to Trump and five pledged to Clinton\u2014for other persons.\" width=\"518\" height=\"301\" \/><\/a>\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nIn this lesson we will study the method of Approval Voting, its flaws, and how voting is conducted in the US.","rendered":"<h2>What you\u2019ll learn to do:\u00a0Evaluate the fairness of the approval voting method<\/h2>\n<p>Up until now, we\u2019ve been considering voting methods that require ranking of candidates on a preference ballot. There is another method of voting that can be more appropriate in some decision making scenarios.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/s3-us-west-2.amazonaws.com\/courses-images\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5207\/2017\/02\/23171359\/2560px-ElectoralCollege2016.svg_.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-4723\" src=\"https:\/\/s3-us-west-2.amazonaws.com\/courses-images\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5207\/2017\/02\/23171359\/2560px-ElectoralCollege2016.svg_.png\" alt=\"Electoral College map showing results of the 2016 U.S. presidential election. Republican Donald Trump won the popular vote in 30 states (red) and in Maine's 2nd congressional district to capture 306 electoral votes. Democrat Hillary Clinton won the popular vote in 20 states (blue) plus D.C. to capture 232 electoral votes. Of these, seven were cast by faithless electors\u2014two pledged to Trump and five pledged to Clinton\u2014for other persons.\" width=\"518\" height=\"301\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>In this lesson we will study the method of Approval Voting, its flaws, and how voting is conducted in the US.<\/p>\n\n\t\t\t <section class=\"citations-section\" role=\"contentinfo\">\n\t\t\t <h3>Candela Citations<\/h3>\n\t\t\t\t\t <div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t <div id=\"citation-list-1590\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t <div class=\"licensing\"><div class=\"license-attribution-dropdown-subheading\">CC licensed content, Original<\/div><ul class=\"citation-list\"><li>Introduction and Learning Objective. <strong>Provided by<\/strong>: Lumen Learning. <strong>License<\/strong>: <em><a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"license\" href=\"https:\/\/creativecommons.org\/licenses\/by\/4.0\/\">CC BY: Attribution<\/a><\/em><\/li><\/ul><div class=\"license-attribution-dropdown-subheading\">CC licensed content, Shared previously<\/div><ul class=\"citation-list\"><li>Electoral college map for the 2016 United States presidential election. <strong>Authored by<\/strong>: Gage. <strong>Located at<\/strong>: <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/United_States_presidential_election#\/media\/File:ElectoralCollege2016.svg\">https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/United_States_presidential_election#\/media\/File:ElectoralCollege2016.svg<\/a>. <strong>License<\/strong>: <em><a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"license\" href=\"https:\/\/creativecommons.org\/licenses\/by-sa\/4.0\/\">CC BY-SA: Attribution-ShareAlike<\/a><\/em><\/li><\/ul><\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t <\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t <\/div>\n\t\t\t <\/section>","protected":false},"author":21,"menu_order":20,"template":"","meta":{"_candela_citation":"[{\"type\":\"original\",\"description\":\"Introduction and Learning Objective\",\"author\":\"\",\"organization\":\"Lumen Learning\",\"url\":\"\",\"project\":\"\",\"license\":\"cc-by\",\"license_terms\":\"\"},{\"type\":\"cc\",\"description\":\"Electoral college map for the 2016 United States presidential election\",\"author\":\"Gage\",\"organization\":\"\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/United_States_presidential_election#\/media\/File:ElectoralCollege2016.svg\",\"project\":\"\",\"license\":\"cc-by-sa\",\"license_terms\":\"\"}]","CANDELA_OUTCOMES_GUID":"e0c9ac8c-a0ef-4417-8435-a68990d2c6a6","pb_show_title":"on","pb_short_title":"","pb_subtitle":"","pb_authors":[],"pb_section_license":""},"chapter-type":[],"contributor":[],"license":[],"class_list":["post-1590","chapter","type-chapter","status-publish","hentry"],"part":1040,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/courses.lumenlearning.com\/mathforliberalartscorequisite\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/chapters\/1590","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/courses.lumenlearning.com\/mathforliberalartscorequisite\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/chapters"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/courses.lumenlearning.com\/mathforliberalartscorequisite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/chapter"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/courses.lumenlearning.com\/mathforliberalartscorequisite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/21"}],"version-history":[{"count":14,"href":"https:\/\/courses.lumenlearning.com\/mathforliberalartscorequisite\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/chapters\/1590\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2998,"href":"https:\/\/courses.lumenlearning.com\/mathforliberalartscorequisite\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/chapters\/1590\/revisions\/2998"}],"part":[{"href":"https:\/\/courses.lumenlearning.com\/mathforliberalartscorequisite\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/parts\/1040"}],"metadata":[{"href":"https:\/\/courses.lumenlearning.com\/mathforliberalartscorequisite\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/chapters\/1590\/metadata\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/courses.lumenlearning.com\/mathforliberalartscorequisite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1590"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"chapter-type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/courses.lumenlearning.com\/mathforliberalartscorequisite\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/chapter-type?post=1590"},{"taxonomy":"contributor","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/courses.lumenlearning.com\/mathforliberalartscorequisite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/contributor?post=1590"},{"taxonomy":"license","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/courses.lumenlearning.com\/mathforliberalartscorequisite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/license?post=1590"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}