When will the world governed by the pursuit of money, power and love, then the math is in two of the three areas at least present. When money is obvious, but also in the distribution of power plays an important role in mathematics (at least in democracies). The right to vote in parliamentary elections to guarantee that political influence is distributed in proportion to the number of votes obtained. In practice, however, this is quite tricky, especially in federal forms of government.
"More votes mean more seats" is a very trivial requirement for a "fair" election system. Of course there are rounding effects in the distribution of seats, which leads that fall a few votes, but should at least "monotony" are in vote-seat function. In practice, it is indeed the case that a party in more votes less get seats. In the Federal German electoral law, this is due to the way it resolves overhang seats . If the votes that will lead to fewer seats from one negative voting weight spoken. On 03.07.2008, the Federal Constitutional Court this calculation to be incompatible with the equality of the election declared incompatible. (The election was held in 2009 but still held the old rules.) Occur
kontraintuitven Why this effect is best on the website www.wahlrecht.de explained. A brief summary of the themes found in a publication of the Scientific Service of the Bundestag tags seat allocation process - available mathematical logic and state the discussion , Newsletter from 07.12.2009.
maximum recommended on the Chaos Radio Express Podcast suffrage and electoral systems, A journey in the counting of electoral legislation and reality in Germany "by Tim Pritlove Fehndrich to Martin, the editor of www.wahlrecht.de . The best I liked the episode, as Martin Fehndrich with persistent electoral appeals and eventually ears Verdfassungsklagen found and has also wanted to go to the Federal Constitutional Court of the facts once on the ground.
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