<div dir="ltr">Funnily enough, I'm actually thinking that wiki article needs to be rewritten from scratch (probably into a section on a broader article on electoral quotas). It doesn't do a very good job of going over the tradeoffs between the two quotas, which are:<div>1. Droop preserves majorities. (A candidate with a majority of the vote will always win a majority of seats.)</div><div>2. Droop is less vulnerable to strategy, because a Droop quota can always enforce their preferences over another candidate (if a Droop quota prefers A to B, then bullet voting A ensures A has more support than B).</div><div>3. Hare is <i>unbiased</i>, making it more proportional than Droop; every party will, on average, receive a number of seats proportional to their share of the vote. Droop is biased towards large parties.</div><div>4. Anti-Droop (nonstandard name; divide by n-1 instead of n+1) will always preserve minorities (a party with less than a majority of the vote will always receive less than a majority of the seats). Anti-Droop is biased towards small parties. I've never seen a serious proposal for it.</div><div><br></div><div>Most mathematicians consider quota methods inferior to divisor methods in general; HH+Webster satisfy quota in practice anyways.</div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Thu, Apr 18, 2024 at 12:38 PM Joseph Malkevitch <<a href="mailto:jmalkevitch@york.cuny.edu" target="_blank">jmalkevitch@york.cuny.edu</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div>
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