[EM] Re: Proportional means equal portions of the whole.

[DEMOREP1 at aol.com]

Mr. T. Round wrote in part (referring to Mr. D. Davidson's comments)=--

4. Donald states that "One truism of Proportional Representation is that

members are to be elected by equal portions of total votes." I don't dispute

that.
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PS: Could I please have some feedback from others on the list as to whether

people are finding the arguments for the Droop of the Hare quota more

convincing.
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D- Both the Hare and Droop methods and Mr. Davidson's comments are defective 
due to the fixation of having 1 vote per seat in a legislative body.   

Such fixation is almost as bad as the once upon a time fixations about divine 
right of kings (i.e. the kings of the Middle Age governments got their power 
because they were the direct relatives of Adam in the Bible) or that the 
earth was the center of the universe or that slavery was good for the slaves.

A legislative body exists ONLY because the electors cannot generally appear 
in person and enact laws by majority rule.  The electors can have their 
agents in the legislative body with their voting power- namely, proxy p.r.