There's this notion of "choice-induced preference change", where making a decision to choose X over Y changes your preferences such that you now more strongly prefer X to Y.
I'm not sure to just what degree it's
1) real,
2) of meaningful size, and
3) occurs as a result of casting a vote; but with some possible answers to those questions, it should be the case that given the same outcome to an election the most voters will be the happiest with it if they chose it by approval voting.
I'm not sure what to do with that observation, but I think it's interesting.
There's this notion of "choice-induced preference change", where making a decision to choose X over Y changes your preferences such that you now more strongly prefer X to Y.
I'm not sure to just what degree it's 1) real, 2) of meaningful size, and 3) occurs as a result of casting a vote; but with some possible answers to those questions, it should be the case that given the same outcome to an election the most voters will be the happiest with it if they chose it by approval voting.
I'm not sure what to do with that observation, but I think it's interesting.