Democracy versus mathematics. Why is “perfect” elections an illusion?

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Imagine this scenario: the organization gains a comfortable majority in parliament, taking over 55 percent of all seats, although only 35 percent of voters voted for it. Sounds like discipline fiction? How about a conspiracy? It turns out that this is simply a brutal reality of democratic systems, in which the proportionality between the votes cast and the seats obtained in parliament is frequently just a wish. Scientists [...]