Center for Voting and Democracy Approval Voting vs. Instant Runoff Voting Plurality voting suffers from two serious flaws. The first is lack of majority rule. As a result, many voters choose not to vote for their favorite candidate and instead vote for a less preferred candidate who has a chance of winning.
Many voting systems improve upon plurality voting.
Click for brief descriptions of some of these systems. Approval voting is one such system. In approval voting, voter vote for all candidates they approve of. The candidate with the highest number of votes wins the election. Benefits of this system are that it is extremely simple to explain to the voter instructions simply state, Vote for 1 or more candidates and all existing voting equipment can accommodate this system.