Re: A simple proposition to fix democracy in U.S.

> It seems to me that there is both a philosophical and a practical
> issue at stake here. The philosophical issue is the "one man, one
> vote" system of participation in the political system.  I'm not sure

Not philosophy, game theory.  

Each person gets one vote on every issue on a ballot.

You get to vote "yes or no" to each candidate on the ballot.

That's it.  Everyone gets one vote on each issue.

You just have to realize that each candidate is a separate issue.... 
the issue of "Is this guy good enough to be president?"  ... "Ok, how
about this guy?"

Only after the advent of computer science and game theory do we really
understand why pluralism fails.  By "merging" multiple issues onto a
single multiple-choice ballot you enable manipulation.  This is
similar to how politicians add "pork" to bills in Congress.

> idea.  At present, the reason it makes sense to limit people to one
> vote per race is that in nearly all elections-- state legislature,
> governor, other state-wide offices, US House, US Senate, and
> President-- there is only one seat open.  Moving to an approval system

Actually, Approval Voting is only ever used for single-seat elections.
 It is completely not appropriate to use Approval voting for a
parlimentary system.