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<pre>1. Proportional Representation is obsolete, now that we have technology to easily<br>implement Proxy Direct Democracy. (I discussed Proxy DD in a fairly recent post).<br><br>2. Largest Remainder, with the Hare quota, doesn't favor small parties. It's<br>unbiased with respect to party-size. But it's also not very proportional.<br>It has lots of random deviation from proportionality. <br><br>Sainte-Lague is the proportional PR. <br><br>Sainte-Lague is known, in Congressional apportionment discussion, as "[Daniel] Webster's method".<br>It has a different implementation-rule definition from that of Sainte-Lague, but it's the same<br>method, giving the same apportionment.<br><br>Largest Remainder is known, in Congressional apportionment discussion as "[Alexander] Hamilton's method".<br><br>Both of those methods have been used to apportion the U.S. House of Representatives.<br><br>Of course both are used for PR too.<br><br>If you don't believe that Sainte-Lague is the most proportional PR method, then look at my<br>Sainte-Lague PR article at Barnsdale's electoral website.<br><br>I think that the URL is something like http://www.Barnsdle.demon.co.uk/vote/PR<br><br>PR is unwinnable in the U.S, where electoral reform, in addition to efforts for Proxy DD, should be about a better<br>single-winner method.<br><br>Of course, with Proxy DD, all decisions will be single-winner decisions, among all kinds of sets of alternatives.<br><br>Mike Ossipoff<br><br><br></pre>
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