Erratic Webster

[New Democracy]

Dear Olli Salmi,

     In your last letter you stated that the remainder method produces
erratic results. Do you have reason to believe this to be so, or are you
merely repeating what Mike Ossipoff has written in the web page you pointed
us to when you made the erratic remark?  MikeO does not support his erratic
remark.

     A case can be made that Webster is erratic. When using Webster the
excess seats will be taken from the largest parties and the shortage of
seats will be given to the largest parties. While the average over many
elections may even out, each election is not the average. In other words
the addition or subtraction of seats will be erratic for each election.

     I contend that the remainder method is no more erratic than Webster,
but the issue is moot if we use the best method - which is to rank the
parties and use Choice Run-Off.

Regards,
Donald


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