[EM] electing a variable number of seats

[fsimmons at pcc.edu]

Jameson Quinn  wrote ...

Wait a minute.... so under non-sequential RRV, there is no "leftover Hare
quota" of unrepresented voters? If 99 voters vote A100 B99 and one voter
votes C100, then C will be in the 2-member parliament? That seems broken.

FWS replies:

Your question has the same answer regardless of which version of RRV is used
(sequential or non):

If there are only two seats, A gets the first and B the second.  
If there are only two seats and repetition is allowed, A gets both of them.
If there are 100 seats with repetitions allowed, then A gets 99 of them and C
gets one of them.

We allow repetition only if A , B, C, etc represent parties (or if the elected
body uses a weighted voting system).

So the primary interpretation of "A gets two seats" would be two seats come from
the party A.