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ELECTORAL SYSTEMS COMMISSION ',
APPENDICES.
SUMMARY OF CONTENTS.
Page.
Appendix 1.
Extract from Taper by Professor B.
J.
Nanson on methods of Election to fill one seat .
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The single Tote method ----------39 The double rote method ---------40 Borda's method -----------40 Method of double elections ......
---41 Ware's method -----------44 The Venetian method ----------45 Oondorcet's practical method ....
-----46 Method proposed by the author -----
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Appendix 2.—Tlie
Alternative Vote in Queensland and Western Australia ----52
Queensland.—The
Consolidation Act of 1905 --
-----52 Western Australia.—The
Electoral Act of 190V --
-----54 Extracts from the report of the Chief Electoral Officer on the General Election of 1908 --56 Pamphlet of instructions to voters -----
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Appendix 3.—Systems
of election in force in other countries ------60
The relative majority method -
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--------60 The second ballot ..........
60 The limited vote .-...---...
61 Proportional representation in Denmark --------61
Einland ........
62 Servia ------.
-63 Sweden -
----63 Switzerland -------63 Wiirttemberg -------64
Appendix 4.—The
Belgian and French Systems ...
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64 The Belgian law of 1899 --------.-
64 The movement for proportional representation in France ------66 The French Bill of 1909 ---.......
67
Appendix 5.—The
Transferable Vote ------
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69 Tasmania, the Electoral Act of 1907 ...
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70 Eules proposed by the English Proportional Representation Society and embodied in the
Municipal Representation Bill of 1908 ---
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-74 Report of Committee on the Tasmanian election of 1909, and on the rules of the English Society 77 South Africa.—History
of the movement for proportional representation --
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-86 Mr.
Humphreys' Report on the Municipal Elections at Pretoria and Johannesburg -
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