Mr. T. Round wrote in part (referring to Mr. D. Davidson's comments)=-- 4. Donald states that "One truism of Proportional Representation is that members are to be elected by equal portions of total votes." I don't dispute that. *** PS: Could I please have some feedback from others on the list as to whether people are finding the arguments for the Droop of the Hare quota more convincing. ---- D- Both the Hare and Droop methods and Mr. Davidson's comments are defective due to the fixation of having 1 vote per seat in a legislative body. Such fixation is almost as bad as the once upon a time fixations about divine right of kings (i.e. the kings of the Middle Age governments got their power because they were the direct relatives of Adam in the Bible) or that the earth was the center of the universe or that slavery was good for the slaves. A legislative body exists ONLY because the electors cannot generally appear in person and enact laws by majority rule. The electors can have their agents in the legislative body with their voting power- namely, proxy p.r.
