Hare system
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This is the method adopted in the Hare system, and we have already shown that it is very defective; in fact, it is no improvement at all.
From Proportional Representation Applied To Party Government by T. R. (Thomas Ramsden) Ashworth
Now, the advocates of the Hare system declare that each elector should have one effective vote only, no matter how many seats the party is entitled to.
From Proportional Representation Applied To Party Government by T. R. (Thomas Ramsden) Ashworth
In Victoria a fierce newspaper contest is being waged over the Block Vote and the Hare system, and the arguments, being mutually destructive, only go to prove that both are equally objectionable.
From Proportional Representation Applied To Party Government by T. R. (Thomas Ramsden) Ashworth
The objection against the Hare system is not so much that it is not suitable to present conditions as that it will speedily bring about altered conditions.
From Proportional Representation Applied To Party Government by T. R. (Thomas Ramsden) Ashworth
He had attended my first lecture at Gawler, but saw difficulties in the way of accepting the Hare system as propounded by me.
From An Autobiography by Catherine Helen Spence
