Posts from August 2018

• Listen

  25 August 2018 | dank meme | Comment

  Listen. Strange people standing in polling centres distributing ballot papers is no basis for a system of government. Supreme executive power derives from a mandate from a constitutional council, not from some farcical psephological ceremony.

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• Why are the D'Hondt (quotient) and Jefferson (quota) methods equivalent?

  17 August 2018 | elections voting systems proportional representation | Comment

  The D'Hondt method/Jefferson method is a highest averages voting system (or apportionment method). While D'Hondt is usually described using successive division to calculate various quotients, Jefferson is usually described using a quota. It is known that the two systems produce the same results, but why?… »