[EM] RE: A 48% Group elects 60% of the Droop Members

[DEMOREP1 at aol.com]

In case folks have not guessed--

Droop fails with multi-member districts because a Droop quota is wasted in 
each district.  That is, N districts = N wasted Droop Quotas.

Also, in real elections the number of votes per district will obviously not 
be equal.  Result- smaller Droop quotas in the below average districts which 
means a lower overall indirect minority rule percentage.

Result- Droop can only be used at large (if one seat = one vote in the 
legislative body).  Even the wasted at large Droop Quota votes is 
unacceptable however (which may be a large percentage of the total votes with 
a small number of seats - e.g. just under 25 percent of votes are wasted if 
there are 3 seats).

How many countries use Droop in their at large and/or district p.r. systems 
???  Folks in Cambridge, Mass taking notice ???

Thus, as Mr. Davidson has been noticing for quite a while, use the Hare Quota 
(total votes/ total seats) if there must be one seat = one vote in the 
legislative body.    Otherwise- use proxy p.r. which wastes ZERO votes and 
would allow more early choices votes (first, second, etc.) to go to the 
legislators whom the voters really want.