(Jb BIBLIOGRAPHY OF PROPORTIONAL REPRESENTATION, 



R.S. TAS. 



(h) He may, in addition, indicate the order of 

 his preference for as many more candi- 

 dates as he pleases, by placing within, or 

 substantially within, the squares respect- 

 ively opposite their names other numbers 

 next in numerical order after those already 

 used by him. 



Rules for the Scrutiny. 

 (Schedule 4.) 

 In this schedule, unless the contrary intention appears — 

 "Returning officer" means the returning officer for the 



district : 

 "Quota" means the number of votes sufficient to elect a 



candidate : 

 "Surplus" means the number of votes which a candi- 

 date has obtained, at any stage of the scrutiny, over 

 and above the quota : 

 " First choice recorded for a candidate " means a voting- 

 paper on which the number 1 is placed in a square 

 opposite the name : 

 "Second choice recorded for a candidate" means a vot- 

 ing-paper on which the number 2 is placed in the 

 square opposite his name : 

 "Transfer value" means that portion of a vote which is 

 unused by — 



(a) An elected candidate who has obtained a sur- 

 plus ; 

 (h) A candidate excluded on account of his being 

 lowest on the poll, and which is therefore 

 transferred to the candidate next in the 

 order of the voter's preference. The trans- 

 fer value of all votes is either 1 or some frac- 

 tion of 1. 



Method of Counting Votes where One Member only has to 

 be returned for a District. 



1. The number of first choices recorded for each candi- 

 date shall be counted, and all informal ballot-papers shall 

 be rejected. 



2. The candidate obtaining an absolute majority of votes 

 shall be elected. 



An absolute majority of votes means a number greater than 

 One-half of the whole number of ballot-papers other than 

 exhausted and informal ballot-papers. The casting vote of 

 the returning officer shall be included in reckoning an abso- 

 lute majority of votes. 



3. If no candidate has an absolute majority of votes, the 

 candidate who has the fewest votes shall be excluded, and 

 each ballot-paper counted to him shall (unless exhausted) be 

 counted to the unexcluded candidate next in the order of 

 the voter's preference. 



4. If no candidate then has an absolute majority of votes, 

 the process of excluding; the candidate who has the fewest 

 votes and counting each of his ballot-papers (unless exhausted) 



