Basically the multipropose Approval Voting we recently used is designed precisely for that Approve an alternative means approval no vote to an alternative means oppose The result gives that or those alternatives which have highest net voter number just as Irpen wishes with approve  oppose The only basic structural weakness of Approval Voting if voters are honest actually is that it is not designed to register priority order of a voter and thus not whether an individual approve vote is strong or weak But even this can be made by enlightened voters they just need to write weak approve or strong approve when voting for any alternative  and the interpretation will be the task of the interpreter However what happened with the yet ongoing vote is not due to weaknesses of the voting system but due to the problem that our subject is difficult to name in a generally accepted way She simply is difficult There are reasonable sufficientlywellfounded arguments her to be placed under headings which almost all make some to oppose And thus the vote splits This being the basic situation NO VOTING SYSTEM will ever cure it  unless using violence Of course a voting system could be designed which favors something and violates some others and thus a decision will be made  against half of the population who are then totally pissed at Such voting systems were used by dictators by oligarchs etc Personally I am somewhat puzzled why not a higher number of people came and put their perhaps secondary or label weak approval to Alexandra of Hesse  but that is the result of the will of those voters