[EM] IIAC. Juho: Census re-districting instead of PR for allocating seats to districts.

[Michael Ossipoff]

Kristofer:

You said:

Similarly, if you pick two states/parties j and k, Webster minimizes the
absolute value of S_j/P_j - S_k/P_k, i.e. the difference between "seats per
population" (share of influence per person) of state j and k.

[endquote]

Of course you can't mean that. You're referring to Webster's transfer
property:

If, starting with the Webster allocation, one state gives a seat to another
state, then that will increase the difference between their s/p. It
certainly will never decrease it.

That pair difference minimization only applies to two states during a
transfer of a seat.

Mike Ossipoff
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