MIKE OSSIPOFF wrote: ... > Are there other reasons > why LR/Hamilton is not favoured? > > I reply: > > That's reason enough. Two kinds of nonmonotonicity: Population > nonmonotonicity and House-size nonmonotonicitly. Your state can lose a seat > because of a population change favoring your state with respect to the > others, or because of an increase in the House's total number of seats.
There's a pretty simple modification to LR/Hamilton that would eliminate the Alabama Paradox. Give seats one at a time (except at the beginning, when each state is assigned one seat), such that the nth seat goes to the state for which the quantity (state's proportion of population) * n - (state's seats so far) is the greatest. ---- election-methods mailing list - see http://electorama.com/em for list info
