BY E. L. PIESSE, B.SC, LL.B. 55 



1913. 



32. E. L. PiESSE. Proportional Representation. A 

 Lecture before the Australian Natives' Association, Hobart 

 Branch (No. 1), 4th June, 1912. Reprinted from ''The 

 Mercury," 5th June, 1912. 



("Mercury'' Office, ITohart, 1912, S pp., Long 

 Svo.) 



Objections commonly taken to the Hare system — 

 failure of the electors to understand it, the struggle for 

 first choices, the exclusion of the lowest candidate — 

 considered in the light of experience in Tasmania. 



33. E. L. PiESSE. The Theory of the Quota in Pro- 

 portional Representation, I. 



(In Papers and Proceedings of the Royal Society of 

 Tasmania, 1912, pp. 49-78. Also issued as. a pamph- 

 let by Electoral Department, Tasmania, pp. 1-30, 

 %vo.) 



1. Disproportionate representation from single-mem- 

 ber districts; statistics. 2. Multi-member districts 

 necessary. 8. The systems to be considered. 4. Sta- 

 tistics of close contests (table showing strengths of 

 parties in Tasmania. 1909, 1910, 1912) ; influence of 

 quota on size of majority; importance of an odd. and 

 not an even, number of members in a district. 5. 

 Quota defined. 6-21. Single transferable vote systems; 

 the Hare and Droop quotas compared in contests 

 between candidates and contests between parties, 

 and the latter shown to be superior. 22-o2. List sys- 

 tems; three solutions of the problem of parti- 

 tion of seats proposed and considered for con- 

 tests between not more than three parties ; the 

 methods used in Europe ; comparison of the various 

 methods ; rules suggested for a three-party contest. 



Part 11. , see 38. 



34. Tasmania: The Tasmanian Workers' Political 

 League. The Tasmanian Workers' Political League : Elec- 

 tion Manual. Comprising Instructions for Candidates, 

 Returning Officers, and Deputy-Returning Officers for the 

 Proper Conduct of Pre-elections. Also Complete Rules 

 for Conducting a Ballot by means of the Launceston Vot- 

 ing System. Issued by Authority of the Annual Confer- 

 ence of the Tasmanian Workers' Political League, 1912. 

 Jas. Guy, Secretary Tasmanian Workers' Political League. 

 f' Tasmanian News " Printing Works, Hobart, 

 1912, 12 pp., 8vo.) 



See the Introduction for the origin of this system. 

 The rules for conducting pre-election ballots are con- 



