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Same Votes, Different Seats

🗺 25 people are seated, with the vote fixed at 🧑‍🦱 15 : 🧑‍🦲 10. Simply changing the “lines” dividing them into five groups of five can produce seat results of 5:0 · 3:2 · 4:1 · 2:3 — without changing a single vote. 🗑 “Wasted votes” explain why: no matter how the map is divided, 10 votes are always wasted, and the side that wastes fewer of its own votes wins more seats relative to its vote share. 🎯 At the end, guess which map created each result just by looking at the outcome.