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

David Catchpole s349436 at student.uq.edu.au
Sun Oct 24 23:51:44 PDT 1999


Well, you can use egroups' poll service if you like. I think you know
already which way my vote will go. (More further down)

On Sat, 23 Oct 1999 DEMOREP1 at aol.com wrote:

> 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.

The equal portions of total votes is Droop quota. Hare has the 1/2n quota
on its arsend to make numbers.



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