[EM] Why proportional elections - Power arguments needed (Czech green party)

[Raph Frank]

On Sat, May 22, 2010 at 1:02 PM, Kristofer Munsterhjelm
<km-elmet at broadpark.no> wrote:
> If we ignore that and consider voters as having to vote (like they would
> have to in a nation of compulsory voting) and otherwise as rational economic
> beings, then that problem vanishes,

Another option would be to assume that they greatly overestimate the
odds of a tie occurring.  This would explain why more people vote when
they think the result is going to be close.