[Arnt]

I wonder if gerrymandering even makes sense with the current Swiss way of counting?

The way they count is unorthodox: It needs a computer to compute the result because it's very iterative, but the result is easily verified without a computer. In Condorcet's days this would have been unthinkable.

Each party receives the right number of seats based on number of votes, and the iterations progressively move seats around to favour candidates who are popular in their party and in their region/district. Eventually it says "can't be made more fair now" and at that point it's easy to verify that.

At first blush it seems that gerrymandering could then only have an effect within a party... is that right?