We hear it all the time when we’re out meeting you in public: how can approval voting possibly be so effective, while also being so simple?

While we always answer that question as best we can, we know there’s someone who can do an even better job: Professor Steven Brams.

Check out our live discussion with Professor Brams, one of the chief pioneers of the academic study of approval voting, to learn about the method’s history, the science behind it, and so much more.