74 BIBLIOGRAPHY OF PROPORTIONAL REPRESENTATION, 



R.S. TAS. 



(vi) But if on crediting a candidate with a number of votes 

 equal to the number calculated as his share under 

 paragraph (iii) the candidate would have a number 

 of votes in excess of the quota, the returning officer 

 shall select at random from the papers selected 

 under paragraph (iv) a numlier of papers sufficient 

 to give the candidate a quota, and no more. On 

 each of the papers thus selected the returning officer 

 shall place a mark opposite the name of the candi- 

 date, and one vote shall be credited to him for each 

 such paper. On each of the remainder of the papers 

 of such candidate selected under paragraph (iv) the 

 returning officer shall place a mark opposite the 

 name of the next available candidate, and shall 

 credit one vote to such next available candidate, 

 provided that as soon as n candidate reaches the 

 quota he shall be declared elected and no more 

 votes shall be credited to him. 



7. Where on the counting of the first choices more than one 

 candidate has a surplus, the largest surplus sh;ill be dealt with 

 first. If then more than one candidate has a surplus, the 

 then largest surplus shall be dealt with, and so on. 



8. — (a) Where, after the first choices have been counted and 

 all surpluses (if any) have been transferred as 

 hereinbefore directed, less than the number of 

 candidates required to be elected have obtained 

 the quota, the candidate who is lowest on the poll 

 shall be excluded, and all the votes obtained by 

 him shall be transferred to the next available 

 candidates on the ballot-papers from which he has 

 obtained his votes — that is. the papers_ on Avhich 

 his name has been marked by the returning officer. 



(b) The returning officer shall in all cases make a mark 



on the ballot-paper opposite the name of the 

 candidate to whom he transfers a vote. 



(c) Whenever, during the transfer of an excluded candi- 



date's votes another candidate reaches the quota, 

 he shall be immediately declared elected, and the 

 remainder of the excluded candidate's votes shall 

 be transferred to the next available candidate on 

 the remainder of the excluded candidate's papers. 



9. The same process of excluding the candidate lowest on 

 the poll and transferring to other candidates his votes shall 

 be repeated until all the candidates, except the number 

 required to be elected, have been excluded, and the unexcluded 

 candidates, who have not already been so declared, shall then 

 be declared elected. 



10. Where at any time it becomes necessary to exclude a 

 candidate, and two or more candidates have the same num- 

 ber of votes and are lowest on the poll, then whichever of 

 such candidates was lowest on the noil at the last count or 

 transfer at which thev had an unequal number of votes shall 

 be first excluded, and if such candidates liave had an equal 

 number of votes at all preceding counts or transfers the return- 

 ing officer shall decide which candidate shall be first excluded. 



