Observations on the working results of the hare system of election in Tasmania

The chief Merit of the Hare System - The deep interest taken in all matters relating to the Hare system of voting and counting at the recent elections in Hobart and Launceston is indicated by the large number of queries put to the writer during the last three months. It is curious, however, that the large body of enquirers and critics restrict their attention mainly to questions relating either to the mode of voting, or to the mode or modes adopted for determining the quota-excesses ; but, most of all, the general attention is restricted to obscure details of no importance concerning the infinitesimal influence of the element of chance still un-eliminated by the Tasmanian Clark-Hare method provided for the transfer and distribution of the quota-excess of the second order