>I wouldn't go so far as to say that MEP is unquestionably 'the fairest' of >all possible methods. As far as I know, each of the standard (and each of >many nonstandard) House Apportionment methods can be got as the solution to >maximizing a weighted average of individual citizens' utilities - using a >suitable utility function - of the citizen's 'representation share'.
Webster's method favours large and small states (or parties) equally. http://www.aps.org/apsnews/0401/040117.html Olli Salmi ---- For more information about this list (subscribe, unsubscribe, FAQ, etc), please see http://www.eskimo.com/~robla/em
