But any change would not alter the voting parity between Germany and France.
How else could it explain the obsession with maintaining voting parity with Germany or the blunt charge by President Jacques Chirac, at an "informal" summit in Biarritz in October, that unless the smaller countries were willing to compromise, the Nice meeting would fail and the EU's enlargement would not happen?
But they were in contention, legislatively, until the 2010 elections undid the gains that had put them within one vote of parity in the 150-member House.
All nations vote with parity, all cultures are visible, countless languages are spoken and accurate translation between them matters dramatically.
The Democrats have 50 votes in the Senate and are only nine votes from parity in the House.
This is emblematic not just of the current administration, but of politicians across the political spectrum who have routinely voted against parity for the island on health care, economic security and other measures of well-being, not to mention civic rights and entitlements.
Mr. Kato seems clearly to prefer to remain a Liberal Democrat, but if he were to carry his faction members into such an alliance, the resulting party or coalition would be just a few votes shy of parity with the Liberal Democratic Party.
It's got even more expensive recently: following the Brexit vote, there's practically parity between sterling and the Swiss Franc.
If the deal goes through, Uber would adopt a "one share, one vote" model to ensure parity in decision-making.
Parity in votes between SNP and Labour next May now looks possible.
Thus appellant has, quite apart from any federal legislation, a constitutional right to vote in New York on a parity with an English-speaking citizeneither by passing a Spanish literacy test or through a certificate showing completion of the sixth grade in a Puerto Rican school where Spanish was the classroom language.
