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Comment by ClayShentrup

Approval voting gets very good results even under asymmetrical strategy.

https://rpubs.com/Jameson-Quinn/VSE5key

Your scenario is unrealistic because real humans aren't that tightly clustered, so you get defectors. And people vote strategically. The winning position is the centroid.

https://www.rangevoting.org/AppCW

It is not known whether proportional representation can compete with the best single winner voting methods. We don't have enough data and we can't do multi-winter Bayesian regret calculations confidently. Here's an article you really should read if you think proportion representation is the answer.

https://www.rangevoting.org/PropRep

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