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How are modified quotas rounded using Webster's method?

What is the plurality-with-elimination method? Why is it advantageous to rank the candidates when using this method?

Playwright Tom Stoppard wrote, "It's not the voting that's democracy; it's the counting." Explain what he meant by this.

A small country is composed of three states, \(A, B\), and \(C\). The country's constitution specifies that congressional seats will be divided among the three states according to their respective populations. Write an apportionment problem satisfying the given criterion. Hamilton's method and Adams's method result in the same apportionment.

Determine whether each statement makes sense or does not make sense, and explain your reasoning. A candidate has a majority of the vote, yet lost the election using the plurality-with-elimination method.

The method currently used to apportion the U.S. House of Representatives is known as the Huntington-Hill method, and more commonly as the method of equal proportions. Research and present a group report on this method. Include the history of how the method came into use and describe how the method works.