Google 'Related Searches' has changed my life. Well, ok maybe only a little bit, but still. (warning, I'm about to do another of my ever-popular 'this is how we should vote' posts.)

Google told me a related search to my blog was tactical voting. It's the practice of voting not for the candidate you sincerely prefer, but because you believe it's the vote most likely to produce a favorable outcome. This lead me to read about Approval Voting where you put a mark next to every candidate you think would be allright. It has some good advantages (see the linked article for good descriptions) but one I had never considered was that it is pretty compatible with existing voting infrastructures.

Tactical voting seems so insincere to me. I'd love to be able to vote for a candidate I actually like without increasing the chances of a candidate I definitely don't like being elected.