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  • collations that ignore the first choice are not legitimate

    Why so? Why do you assume that one party should arbitrarily be given more rights/power than others? Where does this idea come from?

    Imagine an even more extreme example. Assume the winning party had 5% of the votes and most other parties had around 4-5% of the votes. Then assume that the winning party is unable to convince any other parties to enter into a coalition with them. Should all other parties not be allowed to make a coalition to represent 95% of the voters? Should the “winning” party be allowed to block this? Why should such deadlocks be allowed? What is the argument behind this?