62 BIBLIOGRAPHY OF PROPORTIONAL REPRESENTATION, 



R.S. TAS. 



or an insufficient number of candidates^ has obtained 

 the quota of votes necessary for his or their elec- 

 tion, then and in such case the candidate who has 

 obtained the lowest number of votes shall be 

 excluded from the poll, and all the ballot-papers 

 previously counted for such candidate shall be 

 deemed to have been unused and to have his name 

 cancelled thereon, and they shall be respectively 

 transferred to and counted for the other candi- 

 dates who have not received the requisite quota of 

 votes and who are indicated on such ballot-papers 

 respectively as the next in the order of the voter's 

 preference. 

 VIII. The same process of excluding the candidate lowest 

 on the poll and transferring to other candidates the 

 ballot-papers previously counted for the excluded 

 candidate shall be repeated as often as may be 

 necessary until the requisite number of candidates 

 have received the necessary quota of votes, or until 

 the number of candidates has been reduced to the 

 number of members to be elected. 



IX. If at any time after the first counting of the ballot- 



papers it becomes necessary to exclude the lowest 

 candidate from the poll as hereinbefore directed, 

 and it shall be found that two or more candidates 

 have the same number of votes and occupy together 

 the lowest position on the poll, then and in every 

 such case whichever one of such candidates was 

 found to have received the least number of votes 

 upon the first counting of the ballot-papers shall 

 be deemed to be the lowest on the poll ; and if at 

 any time it becomes necessary to exclude from the 

 poll one or more of any number of candidates who 

 have received the same number of votes upon the 

 first counting of the ballot-papers, the returning 

 officer shall decide which one or more of such can- 

 didates shall be excluded from the poll. 



X. When, by successive applications of the directions 



hereinbefore contained, the number of candidates is 

 reduced to the number of members to be elected, 

 the candidates constituting such reduced number 

 shall be declared elected. 



Appendix 3. 

 The Electoral Bill, 1899. 



Biblioffranhv Clause 127. In the case of every electoral district in which 



No. 7. " more than one candidate is to be elected, and in which there 



is more than one polling-place, the deputy returning officer of 

 each polling-place shall, as soon as practicable after the close 

 of the poll, and in the presence of such of the scrutineers as 

 choose to be present, open the ballot-boxes and deal with the 

 ballot-papers as follows : — 



I. He shall first arrange the ballot-papers by placing in 

 a separate receptacle or parcel all those which have 



