[pp.int.general] One good, one bad

[Boris Turovskiy]

Christian Hufgard wrote:
>
> I mean, that each vote must have a direct and equal influence to the
> representation of seats. If a country A has 100 inhabitants and it gets
> 100 seats and country B has 10 inhabitants and get 20 seats, that the
> election grants the inhabitants of B a larger influence than the
> inhabitants of A.
>   
Even taking the number of seats as the measure of power (which is 
false), you are wrong. On the contrary, if a country with 100 
inhabitants gets 10 seats and a country with 10 inhabitants gets 1 seat, 
it's a strong skew in favour of the larger country.