Hare system
Example Sentences
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Professor Commons rejects the Hare system in favour of the Free List system.
From Proportional Representation Applied To Party Government by T. R. (Thomas Ramsden) Ashworth
A Number of Votes are Wasted.—It is claimed for the Hare system that every vote cast is effective, because it counts for some one candidate.
From Proportional Representation Applied To Party Government by T. R. (Thomas Ramsden) Ashworth
It is not necessary that every vote should be counted to some one candidate, as the advocates of the Hare system claim.
From Proportional Representation Applied To Party Government by T. R. (Thomas Ramsden) Ashworth
This has already happened in Tasmania, where all experience goes to show that the Hare system is equivalent to compulsory plumping.
From Proportional Representation Applied To Party Government by T. R. (Thomas Ramsden) Ashworth
Again, Professor Commons says that "the Hare system is advocated by those who, in a too doctrinaire fashion, wish to abolish political parties."
From Proportional Representation A Study in Methods of Election by John H. Humphreys
