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 === What's with the 25% threshold? Why not 40% or 15%? ===
-% leaves room for up to 3 parties per district. That means that in a two-party district, there will always be room for a new upstart party, so politics won't stagnate. But it also means that there won't be room for too many parties, so smaller fringe parties will have to join into coalitions with broader appeal.
+% leaves room for up to 3 parties per district. (That is, 4 parties can't all have over 25%.) That means that in a two-party district, there will always be room for a new upstart party, so politics won't stagnate. But it also means that there won't be room for too many parties, so smaller fringe parties will have to join into coalitions with broader appeal.
-(Of course, technically speaking, 25% leaves room for 4 parties in a district, if those 4 were exactly balanced. But since perfect 4-way balance is ridiculously unlikely, it means a limit of 3 in practice.)
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