ON TRUE REPRESENTATION BY THE TRANS- 

 FERABLE VOTE AND WHAT IT WOULD 

 DO FOR SOUTHERN RHODESIA. 



By John Brown, M.D., CM., F.R.C.S., L.R.C.S.E. 



! Synopsis. 



1. What the transferable vote is. and how it makes every 

 vote effective. 



2. Examples of the present system where only 17 and 15 per 

 cent, were effective. 



3. A majority of non-eff'ective votes is inevitable with 

 majority election. 



4. Unsatisfactory results of present system in the British 

 Parliament. 



5. Sectional election gives with the transferable vote true 

 representation. 



6. It is possible with three meml)ers, and works better with 

 seven. 



7. It works well at Pretoria, and is needed in Rhodesia. 



8. With it all the possible effective votes are equally dis- 

 tributed. 



9. In Tasmania and the Transvaal 99 per cent, are actually 

 used. 



10. The voters part, and the returning officers work. 



11. Two rules to ensure absolute arithmetical precision in 

 counting. 



12. Comparison with present Rhodesian elections. 



13. Need for special facilities for the rural voter, when you 

 have made every possible vote effective. 



14. How effective voting affects the voter. 



15. Adaptability of the transferable vote. Needs of the 

 rural voter. 



16. Effective voting increases the number of voters, and 

 their political interest. 



17. By making canvassing impossible it increases the supply 

 of the best candidates, and to some extent substitutes merit for 

 ability to pay election expenses as the first qualification. 



18. It makes the elected Member the Representative of the 

 people, and in every way the equal of the nominated members. 



19. It benefits the country, for in one large constituency each 

 voter can vote where he happens to be working; every grade of 

 difference of opinion can be expressed. We get one voter one 

 vote, one vote one value, an ecjual number of votes for each 

 member, and all votes effective. 



20. It settles for the future the question of redistribution. 



21. Additional representation becomes automatic. 



22. A satisfactory solution of the question of bye -elections 

 is afforded. 



23. Recapitulation. 



