BY E. L. PIESSE, B.SC, LL.B. 45 



1913 



tions (^), a further modification of the original Hare sys- 

 tem. Instead of a single transferable Yote, the Launces- 

 ton Voting System gives several votes (but a less number 

 than the number of members to be elected), and there is 

 provision for transferring surplus votes and the votes of 

 lowest candidates. The idea of using several votes is bor- 

 rowed from the Brandt system, due to Mr. ?. J. Brandt, 

 of Melbourne, used by the Labour Party in Victoria for 

 its pre-elections : but in the Brandt system there is no 

 quota or surplus, and the votes of lowest candidates are 

 transferred until only the number required to be elected 

 remain. The object of having several votes in place of 

 only one is to make the quota larger, and so ensure that 

 the elected candidate shall have received support from a 

 considerable body of the voters; also, the provision for 

 several votes prevents the struggle for the first chcic-e 

 which has been found to be an undesirable feature of the 

 single transferable vote. The rules of the Launceston 

 Voting System are nrinted in Appendix 5. 



BIBLIOGRAPHY. 



1874. 



1. [Andrew Inglis Clark.] Hare's System of Repre- 

 sentation. 



(In The Quadrilat^al, Vol. L, No. 11, Nov. 

 [1S74], pp. 249-251). 



This is an unsigned article, but I am informed by 

 Mr. William Burn, of Hobart, the only survivor of the 

 four members of '' The Quadrilateral," that the 

 author was Andrew Inglis Clark. 



The leading features of the system ; the probable 

 effects of adopting it. Reference to the objection to 

 Hare's method of dealing with a surplus, and suggestion 

 that of the candidates not yet elected the one who has 

 the greatest number of first choices shall be entitled to 

 as many votes from papers on which he is marked second 

 as he requires for election. 



1896. 



2. Tasmania: ''The Electoral Act, 1896" (60 Vict. 

 No. 49). 



For an account of this Act, see the Tntroduczion. 

 The speech of Mr. Attorney-General Clark in moving 



(') See Bibliography ' o, 34. 



