MODULE 2

• Apportionment


  The problem of dividing up a fixed number of things among groups of different size
• Apportionment in politics

  • Allocating a limited number of representatives among voters
  • Defining how to draw districts for state representatives
• Hamilton's method


  A procedure to determine how many representatives each state should receive
• Steps of Hamilton's method

  1. Determine the standard divisor

  2. Divide each state's population by the divisor to get the quota

  3. Cut off the decimal parts of the quotas to get the lower quotas

  4. Assign the remaining representatives to the states with the largest decimal parts of the quota
• Voting


  The process of selecting a winner in an election
• There are several methods for determining a winner in an election
• Voters can rank candidates from 1st to 5th choice
• Weighted voting


  Gives some voters different amounts of influence or weight concerning the outcome of an election