BY E. L. PIESSE, B.SC. LL.B. 27 



1913. 



68. As an example of the multiple transferable vote^ 

 let us take a contest in a six-member district between 

 two parties each nominating six candidates, in which each 

 voter has three first choices, and second, third and fourth 

 choices; and let us suppose that there is neither cross- 

 voting between the parties nor short-voting within a party . 



The first stage of the scrutiny will be to count 

 the first choices obtained by each candidate. The 

 total of these for all candidates will be three 

 times the number of voters. The quota will be 

 one-sixth (if the Hare quota is used) or one-seventh 

 (if the Droop quota is used) of the total number of first 

 choices; i.e., three-sixths (Hare) or three-sevenths (Droop) 

 of the number of voters. Some candidates will have sur- 

 pluses above the quota, and there must be rules for trans- 

 ferring these: when all surpluses have been transferred, 

 there may be one or more seats unfilled, and there must 

 be rules for excluding the candidates lowest on the poll 

 and distributing their votes. 



Various sets of rules have been proposed. To illustrate 

 the importance of the differences between the rules, let 

 us take an extreme case based UDon the following ballot- 

 papers (A, B, C, D, E, F being supposed to be the candi- 

 dates of one party) — 



1 A 



D 



1 B 



Fl i" 



^ h 



F 



[C 



