Mackerras article

[Marcus Ganley]

---Steve     (Steve Eppley    seppley at alumni.caltech.edu) wrote:
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>Yes.  Even if the threshold is 0% an argument can be made to allow 
>the voters to rank the parties: to give the parties and the nation 
>valuable feedback about how broad each party's support really is.
Indeed.  It should also be noted that even if there is no legal 
threshold, in a 120 seat parliament, with seat allocation being based 
on the nation-wide vote of each party, any party with less than 1/120 
of the vote is still excluded from representation.