2025 NYC Dem Mayor Primary votes of approval

Mamdani: 640,340 ( 59.6 %)
Lander: 632,911 ( 58.9 %)
Adams: 579,587 ( 54.0 %)
Cuomo: 490,400 ( 45.7 %)

RCV made it look close.
Approval Voting shows a movement.

If NYC Democratic Mayoral Primary had been tabulated as Approval Voting — where ranking in any position counts as a “yes” — it would’ve revealed:

✅ Mamdani’s supermajority
✅ Voters’ clear progressive agenda
❌ Cuomo’s shot in the dark

If mpls mayoral choices were tabulated as approval voting (ranking in any position counts as yes), Jazz would've won:

Frey: 80242 (54.3%)
Fateh: 72912 (49.4%)
Davis: 77852 (52.7%)
Hampton: 81508 (55.2%)

If Minneapolis had Approval Voting, they would not be waiting on 2nd round results right now.

The Center for Election Science The Center for Election Science is a national, nonpartisan leader in approval voting, election analysis and voting method research. Approval Voting is an alternative voting method that allows voters to select all of the candidates that they like.

Maybe democracy could take a cue from social media.

Let voters “like” every candidate they actually support — and let the most broadly approved leader rise to the top.

We’ve already proven Approval methods works. We use them every day.

Learn more about #ApprovalVoting at ElectionScience.org

If social media used single-choice voting, engagement would collapse.

Approval Voting keeps it real — engaging, simple to use, fast to count, and it reflects what most people actually like.

#ApprovalVoting #ElectionReform #DemocracyInnovation

Approval Voting lets you support all the candidates you truly like.

❌ No rankings. No transfers. No eliminations. No “ballot exhaustion.”
✅ Just count every approval — the candidate with the most wins.

Just like checking what’s trending on Social Media.

Now imagine if you could only “like” one post a day. Engagement would CRASH.

You’d hesitate to "spend" your one like. You might save it for something "safe." Smaller creators/niche content would vanish. The same big accounts would dominate.

That’s what single-choice voting does to elections.

And what happens next? The posts that get the most total likes rise to the top.

It’s instant, transparent, and fair.

We’ve all used Approval Voting — billions of times a day — without even realizing it.

Now think about how social media really works. You can “like” every post you genuinely enjoy — your friend’s photo, a meme, a news story — and each one counts.

That’s Approval Voting.

You approve of everything that resonates. Simple, natural, honest.

#ApprovalVoting

That’s how most elections work — you get one vote. One pick.

Even if you like several candidates, you can’t show it.

You’re forced to choose just one and hope you don’t “waste” your vote.

🗳️ Imagine if social media worked like our elections… You’d only be allowed to “like” ONE post per day.

Sounds absurd, right?

#ElectionReform #DemocracyInnovation

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