Dear Election Methods,
For the apportionment methods for the US House of Representatives
there are 5 interesting methods, which go under various names
(including e.g. Jefferson, Huntington-Hill, Webster, Dean and Adams)
which optimize results with respect to the transfer of a seat between
a pair of states. However, the methods differ with regard to the
"fairness measure" which is being optimized in this pairwise
transfer. Some of these measures look at "absolute" differences and
some look at "relative" differences before and after the transfer of
a seat. The analysis here was carried out by E. V. Huntington, and
developed later by others. The details are in Balinski and Young's book.
Best,
Joe
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Joseph Malkevitch
Department of Mathematics
York College (CUNY)
Jamaica, New York 11451
Phone: 718-262-2551 (Voicemail available)
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