{"id":6990,"date":"2026-07-31T09:00:05","date_gmt":"2026-07-31T09:00:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/rdgundem.com\/math-shows-why-your-vote-may-not-count-the-way-you-think-it-does\/"},"modified":"2026-07-31T09:00:05","modified_gmt":"2026-07-31T09:00:05","slug":"math-shows-why-your-vote-may-not-count-the-way-you-think-it-does","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rdgundem.com\/en\/math-shows-why-your-vote-may-not-count-the-way-you-think-it-does\/","title":{"rendered":"Math shows why your vote may not count the way you think it does"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Mathematicians have shown that completely fair elections are\u2014in a sense\u2014impossible. No electoral system can guarantee both that local votes translate directly into local seats and that total seat distribution matches overall vote shares\u2014not without an indefinitely growing parliament.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mathematicians have shown that completely fair elections are\u2014in a sense\u2014impossible. No electoral system can guarantee both that local votes translate directly into local seats and that total seat distribution matches overall vote shares\u2014not without an indefinitely growing parliament.<\/p>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":6991,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"pagelayer_contact_templates":[],"_pagelayer_content":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6990","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-gundem"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rdgundem.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6990","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rdgundem.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rdgundem.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rdgundem.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rdgundem.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6990"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rdgundem.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6990\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rdgundem.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6991"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rdgundem.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6990"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rdgundem.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6990"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rdgundem.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6990"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}