[EM] PostPostscript:2nd Query for Approval advocates

[John B. Hodges]

PostPostscript: Technical nicety. On each round of balloting for the 
multiseat-Bucklin procedure, the Droop quotas are calculated AFTER 
that round's ballots are tallied and added to any votes carrying over 
from previous rounds. DQ = (#votes)/(#seats+1).

I suspect this procedure is going to overrepresent minorities, 
because undervotes accumulate but overvotes vanish. A very high 
percentage of the population will get somebody in the legislature 
that they voted for, very likely their first choice, but the 
representation will not be as close to strictly proportional as STV 
would produce.

Just gotta spend the time to work through a lot of example cases. 
Maybe over the weekend.
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John B. Hodges, jbhodges@  @usit.net
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