[erimir]

Ah, well to be honest, I consider range voting to be preferable to approval voting. You can rate your top choices above other candidates.

It's just that approval voting is simpler and strategic voting within range voting tends to be the same as approval voting. While I would probably still vote purely strategically, the expressiveness of range voting would be helpful to the "voting is about the purity of my principles, not who will run the country" crowd.

But it may be in practice that it has similar issues.