In case folks have not guessed-- Droop fails with multi-member districts because a Droop quota is wasted in each district. That is, N districts = N wasted Droop Quotas. Also, in real elections the number of votes per district will obviously not be equal. Result- smaller Droop quotas in the below average districts which means a lower overall indirect minority rule percentage. Result- Droop can only be used at large (if one seat = one vote in the legislative body). Even the wasted at large Droop Quota votes is unacceptable however (which may be a large percentage of the total votes with a small number of seats - e.g. just under 25 percent of votes are wasted if there are 3 seats). How many countries use Droop in their at large and/or district p.r. systems ??? Folks in Cambridge, Mass taking notice ??? Thus, as Mr. Davidson has been noticing for quite a while, use the Hare Quota (total votes/ total seats) if there must be one seat = one vote in the legislative body. Otherwise- use proxy p.r. which wastes ZERO votes and would allow more early choices votes (first, second, etc.) to go to the legislators whom the voters really want.
