<div>Isn't Jameson right? In the non-sequential version of RRV, if there are only two seats to be awarded and C gets niether of them, then the sum of the C voter's grades of the elected candidates is zero, which will contribute a huge negative value to the sum of the logs.</div>
<div><br></div><div>But if C is given one of the two seats, even though only one voter out of 100 liked C, then the C voter will have a positive sum and all the A voters will have a positive sum, so the sum of the logs will be higher.</div>
<div><br></div><div>I guess you can try to pick a large enough epsilon so that a small group of voters doesn't have veto power. Has a good formula been given for choosing the appropriate epsilon? If you're considering the limit as epsilon goes to zero, then it seems to be vulnerable to one voter bullet voting.</div>
<div><br></div><div>Andy</div><div><br></div><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, May 18, 2011 at 12:15 PM, <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:fsimmons@pcc.edu">fsimmons@pcc.edu</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">
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Jameson Quinn wrote ...<br>
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Wait a minute.... so under non-sequential RRV, there is no "leftover Hare<br>
quota" of unrepresented voters? If 99 voters vote A100 B99 and one voter<br>
votes C100, then C will be in the 2-member parliament? That seems broken.<br>
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</div>FWS replies:<br>
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Your question has the same answer regardless of which version of RRV is used<br>
(sequential or non):<br>
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If there are only two seats, A gets the first and B the second.<br>
If there are only two seats and repetition is allowed, A gets both of them.<br>
If there are 100 seats with repetitions allowed, then A gets 99 of them and C<br>
gets one of them.<br>
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We allow repetition only if A , B, C, etc represent parties (or if the elected<br>
body uses a weighted voting system).<br>
<br>
So the primary interpretation of "A gets two seats" would be two seats come from<br>
the party A.<br>
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