You have gorgous eyes and a pretty smile ! <| sep |> Its like calling people names and is just very petty . <| sep |> The answer to both of your questions first we have to see if we agree on the fundamental premise of why we have elections . I say it ' s to reflect the collective opinion of the citizenry to express the will of the people , as it were . What if a citizenry does not have a shared collective opinion ? If a citizenry could be divided into groups that demonstrate distinct voting behaviors , is it even possible to reconcile this in a shared election ? If someone with more votes loses , then that indicates that the particular method of an election is not good at expressing the collective opinion of the people . If a candidate wins by a small margin , like 12 %, does that mean the collective opinion of the people has endorsed him , despite 4849 % voting for the other candidate ? If a candidate , running in a ranking system , wins due to a large percentage of second and third choice votes , does this truly represent the collective opinion of the people when he won as secondbest , thirdbest or secondleast worst , etc ? Does he truly represent those voters fully or only partially ? As for which voting method is better , there ' s been a lot of research done on two fronts by political scientists and mathematicians . The first , is to find voting systems with the least amount of paradoxes such as vote splitting in first past the post , which undermine an election ' s intent of accurately measuring the opinion of the voting public . Second , research has been done on various vote methods to show how often they do in fact accurately articulate the collective will such as ' Bayesian regret ' analysis rangevoting . orgBayRegDum . html . Based on the research , I ' ve been a fan of approval or range voting , notwithstanding some practical issues it might face . What is the collective opinion of the citizenrypeople ? How is it determined , like is the opinion of a group of people average over a particular issue This is outside voting , but a more generalized question .