PostPostscript: Technical nicety. On each round of balloting for the
multiseat-Bucklin procedure, the Droop quotas are calculated AFTER
that round's ballots are tallied and added to any votes carrying over
from previous rounds. DQ = (#votes)/(#seats+1).
I suspect this procedure is going to overrepresent minorities,
because undervotes accumulate but overvotes vanish. A very high
percentage of the population will get somebody in the legislature
that they voted for, very likely their first choice, but the
representation will not be as close to strictly proportional as STV
would produce.
Just gotta spend the time to work through a lot of example cases.
Maybe over the weekend.
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