Join the Political Psychology SG seminar: Voter preferences for voting methods are an intertwined subject that could depend on many psychological and political reasons. This work analyzes the impact of experiencing voting methods on satisfaction with them. We conducted an incentivized laboratory experiment (N = 189), assessing voting preferences for different voting methods before and after testing one specific alternative – either evaluative voting (EV) or majority judgment (MJ) – in repeated elections. We found that experiencing an alternative voting method – which entails higher informational demand – increased its support compared to the current official method, with a greater magnitude than all control variables including monetary gains in the election task. Overall, respondents tended to attribute high importance to understandability. When they did so, they preferred the easier EV to the more complex MJ. Not only was complexity hypothesized, but it was also assessed using correct answers in the comprehension test, which measured voter understanding of the theoretical properties of voting methods. Answering correctly about an alternative did not depend on having tested said alternative nor correlated with a preference for that alternative, displaying a difference between the value attached to understandability and actual understanding.