Editing Highest averages method (section)

=== Thresholds ===
{{Main|Electoral threshold}}
Many countries have electoral thresholds for representation, where parties must win a specified fraction of the vote in order to be represented; parties with fewer votes than the threshold requires for representation are eliminated.<ref name="Pukelsheim-2017-8" /> Other countries modify the first divisor to introduce a ''natural threshold''; when using the Webster method, the first divisor is often set to 0.7 or 1.0 (the latter being called the ''full-seat modification'').<ref name="Pukelsheim-2017-8" />