On Mon, Sep 02, 2013 at 09:55:57AM +0200, Kristofer Munsterhjelm wrote:
> I'm not sure what you mean by "exactly how it's done in counties
> today", though. If you mean that the apportionment of seats to
> counties (i.e. how many seats each district gets in the district
> target) is done by unmodif
On 07/29/2013 07:22 PM, Vidar Wahlberg wrote:
On Mon, Jul 29, 2013 at 01:36:49PM +0200, Kristofer Munsterhjelm wrote:
On 07/28/2013 04:37 PM, Vidar Wahlberg wrote:
Upper apportionment:
- Party seats are apportioned using unmodified Sainte-Laguë based on
national votes. If desirable the first
On 29.7.2013, at 14.36, Kristofer Munsterhjelm wrote:
> On 07/28/2013 04:37 PM, Vidar Wahlberg wrote:
>> - District seats are determined externally and thus not apportioned in
>> this implementation.
>
> A similar trick could be used to implement a threshold if desired. It would
> be complica
On Mon, Jul 29, 2013 at 01:36:49PM +0200, Kristofer Munsterhjelm wrote:
> On 07/28/2013 04:37 PM, Vidar Wahlberg wrote:
>>Upper apportionment:
>>- Party seats are apportioned using unmodified Sainte-Laguë based on
>> national votes. If desirable the first divisor may be modified, or a
>> electi
On 07/28/2013 04:37 PM, Vidar Wahlberg wrote:
On Tue, Jul 23, 2013 at 09:29:25PM +0200, Vidar Wahlberg wrote:
Implementing it is no easy task. It may be that my sources, mainly the
Wikipedia entry and Olli Salmi's page[2] are a bit short on the topic,
but one hindrance I've faced is figuring out
On Tue, Jul 23, 2013 at 09:29:25PM +0200, Vidar Wahlberg wrote:
> Implementing it is no easy task. It may be that my sources, mainly the
> Wikipedia entry and Olli Salmi's page[2] are a bit short on the topic,
> but one hindrance I've faced is figuring out what the divisor values
> should be during
On Mon, Jul 22, 2013 at 10:49:52PM +0200, Kristofer Munsterhjelm wrote:
> To make the biproportional voting method work, the numbers should be
> set so that the rows give the correct allocation per party and the
> columns give the correct allocation per district (or vice versa,
> depending on what
On 07/21/2013 01:42 PM, Vidar Wahlberg wrote:
The biproportional apportionment system Kristoffer linked to is very
interesting. It is slightly more complex and I fear it may be too
complex for common people to understand (which will make it difficult to
gain support for it), and I wonder if it m
