Re: [EM] Fwd: Proportionality proof of Schulze proportional ranking

2010-05-06 Thread Raph Frank
On Thu, May 6, 2010 at 10:53 AM, Markus Schulze wrote: >   Then the n-th seat goes to a candidate B >   such that the set {A(1),...,A(n-1),B} satisfies >   Droop proportionality for n seats. Expanding this using the (k+1) solid coalitions definition. If a group of voters representing a fraction,

[EM] Fwd: Proportionality proof of Schulze proportional ranking

2010-05-06 Thread Markus Schulze
Dear Warren, for the top-down approach to create a party list, I would define "proportionality" as follows: Suppose place 1 to (n-1) have already been filled. Suppose A(i) (with i = 1,...,(n-1)) is the candidate of place i. Suppose we want to fill the n-th place. Suppose it is po