Hare system

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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 Ashworth, T. R. (Thomas Ramsden)

And as for the scheme for allowing separate delegation to a number of sections, which is advocated under the name of the Hare system, it would be absolutely fatal.

From Proportional Representation Applied To Party Government by Ashworth, T. R. (Thomas Ramsden)

Miss Spence.—An active campaign has for some time been carried on for the adoption of the Hare system in Australia.

From Proportional Representation Applied To Party Government by Ashworth, T. R. (Thomas Ramsden)

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 Ashworth, T. R. (Thomas Ramsden)

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 Spence, Catherine Helen