What does AV stand for?

Approval Voting (election voting systems)

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He also analyzes a proposed reform known as approval voting.

The presidential election game, rev. ed

Approval voting allows you to cast single votes for more than one candidate -- you could vote for Ralph Nader and Al Gore (which would not be unfair).

Why ''1 person, 1 vote'' is defective; Books and Authors

In the approval voting system, each voter votes for many candidates and the most popular, according to this criterion, wins.

The Public Choice revolution: Public Choice has demystified and ...

176) to have discussed approval voting "together with the strategic methods of cheating on it earlier on in the book," no such discussion exists, and, in fact, approval voting has generally been found to be relatively hard to manipulate (Brams and Fishburn 1983, Chapter 2).

On Voting: A Public Choice Approach