Isn PR expensive to administer?
A. PR methods are not substantially more expensive to administer than any other election method, and the cost would just be lost in the background noise of voter pamphlet costs, registration database maintenance, and so on. There are sometimes costs associated with adopting a PR method if the voting equipment can’t already handle it. The costs of PR must be weighed against the cost of bad representation: if PR can prevent a single pork-barrel project – or an electricity crisis such as the one experienced in 2001 – it will quickly pay for itself.
