Hare system

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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 Ashworth, T. R. (Thomas Ramsden)

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)

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 Ashworth, T. R. (Thomas Ramsden)

The actual result is that, in the long run, the Hare system is practically the same as the single untransferable vote.

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

But they are guilty of far more than that, for in another chapter of Mill's book we find that his conception of a representative assembly elected by the Hare system is a purely deliberative body.

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