<html><head></head><body><div style="color:#000; background-color:#fff; font-family:Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, Lucida Grande, sans-serif;font-size:13px"><div><span></span></div><div class="qtdSeparateBR" id="yui_3_16_0_1_1496653143426_10847" dir="ltr">As I was saying before, while Droop proportionality has gained a lot of currency as a criterion, it's just a special case of proportionality for solid coalitions. We could just as easily talk about Hare proportionality. For example, the Sainte-Laguë party list method doesn't obey Droop proportionality, but is seen as more mathematically proportional than D'Hondt, which does obey it. But Sainte-Laguë does obey proportionality for solid coalitions more generally. The point is that Droop proportionality itself is not a deal breaker for a method, and I find it slightly overused.<br><br></div><div class="yahoo_quoted" id="yui_3_16_0_1_1496653143426_10836" style="display: block;"> <div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1496653143426_10835" style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, Lucida Grande, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"> <div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1496653143426_10834" style="font-family: HelveticaNeue, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, Lucida Grande, Sans-Serif; font-size: 16px;"> <div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1496653143426_10833" dir="ltr"> <font id="yui_3_16_0_1_1496653143426_10832" face="Arial" size="2"> <hr size="1" id="yui_3_16_0_1_1496653143426_10846"> <b><span style="font-weight: bold;">From:</span></b> Kristofer Munsterhjelm <km_elmet@t-online.de><br> </font><br id="yui_3_16_0_1_1496653143426_10844" clear="none"><br clear="none">Perhaps Droop proportionality isn't the exact proportionality measure <br clear="none">one would want - for instance, for my Bucklin methods, I've tried to <br clear="none">base them on divisor methods rather than on hard quotas - but I think <br clear="none">the concept that "some voters who broadly agree on a group of candidates <br clear="none">should see one of them elected" is a good one. That is, that a group of <br clear="none">voters can have "their" seat without having to agree on a strategy.</div><div class="y_msg_container" id="yui_3_16_0_1_1496653143426_10842"><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1496653143426_10843" dir="ltr"><div class="yqt6418950328" id="yqtfd33530"><br clear="none"></div></div><br id="yui_3_16_0_1_1496653143426_10845"><br></div> </div> </div> </div></div></body></html>