<6(] BIBLIOGRAPHY OF PROPORTIONAL REPRESENTATION, 



R.S. TAS. 



the second order, and shall be transferred and dis- 

 tributed among the remaining candidates not yet 

 returned in the manner hereinbefore provided for 

 the distribution of transfer excess votes of the 

 second order (Subsection v.) : 

 VIII. The same process of excluding the candidate lowest 

 on the poll at each stage, and transferring to other 

 candidates the unused or the transfer votes of the 

 first and second order, shall be repeated as often 

 as may be necessary until the requisite number of 

 candidates have secured the quota of votes, or until 

 the number of candidates has been reduced to the 

 number of members to be elected. 

 Clause 130. In the case of every electoral district in which 

 more than one candidate is to be elected, and in which there 

 is only one polling-place, the returning officer himself shall 

 supervise all the operations and processes involved in dealing 

 with ballot-papers, and in balloting for the various candi- 

 dates, as hereinbefore provided in the case of districts 

 where there is more than one polling-place, and shall himself 

 supervise all the processes involved in counting the votes and 

 ascertaining the final results of the election, as hereinafter 

 provided — 



I. He shall, as soon as practicable after the close of the 

 poll, and in the presence of such of the scruti- 

 neers as choose to he present, open the ballot-boxes 

 and deal with the ballot-papers as in the following 

 subsections : — 



II. He shall arrange the ballot-papers by placing in a 

 separate receptacle or parcel all those which have 

 the figure 1 set opposite to the same candidate, 

 and in so doing he shall, upon the proper record- 

 ing sheet mark the i^reference 1 by a mark 1 in 

 the proper column under the name of the candi- 

 date for whom the No. 1 preference vote is declared 

 in each ballot-paper. At the same time he shall 

 reject all such defective ballot-papers as are 

 described in Subsection One of Section One hun- 

 dred and twenty-eight : 



III. He shall then compute and ascertain the total num- 



ber of first preference votes polled at sucli election, 

 and shall determine the quota entitling each candi- 

 date to be returned at the said election as a mem- 

 ber to serve in Parliament, in the same manner as 

 hereinbefore provided in Section One hundred and 

 twenty-nine. Subsection One ; and every candidate 

 who has a number of first preference votes equal to 

 or greater than the quota shall be declared elected, 

 and shall as such be excluded from the subsequent 

 operations of the poll : 



IV. He shall then in proper order proceed to deal with 



the transfer and distribution of transfer excess 

 votes of the first and second order, and with the 

 unused votes of candidates who as the next lowest 

 in turn are excluded from the poll, in the same 

 manner as hereinbefore provided (Section One hun- 

 dred and twenty-nine. Subsections Three to Eight) 



