[EM] average over time proportionality election method
Jobst Heitzig
heitzig-j at web.de
Sun Mar 5 23:19:33 PST 2006
Hello Ralph!
You in reply to me wrote:
>>Can you prove this? Seems not so obvious to me...
>
> It is based on the assumption that the "cost" in votes to get elected
> is roughly the same in every election. If it always costs 1000 votes
> to get elected and a candiate gets 300 votes, the candidate is 30% of
> the way to get a seat.
Sorry to insist, but can you prove the proportionality? I tried some
minutes but failed, so at least it is not obvious... What is obvious is
that more votes lead to being elected more often (=monotonicity), and
having non-zero votes leads to being elected eventually.
Yours, Jobst
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