[Election-Methods] Determining representativeness of multiwinner methods

[James Gilmour]

Howard > Sent: Tuesday, June 24, 2008 4:18 AM
> I feel that the need to look for and design a system around geographic 
> proportionality is a waist of time (except as a sales pitch).
> I believe that geographic proportionality would naturally come out of a 
> truly proportional system (if it was important to the voters) where the 
> proportionality of all issues important to the voters are taken into account.
> As an example, if a large number of voter care about the number of pot 
> holes on bank street it is likely that many of these voters live or work 
> near bank street. and thus would elect at least some politicians that 
> live near bank street.

And that is what you would get with STV-PR, so why the need to re-invent this particular wheel?

James Gilmour

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