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Rh erhält sie dagegen bei der Wahl von 3 Vertretem einen, bei 5 Vertretern 2 gegen 3, bei 8 Vertretern 3 gegen 5, bei 10 Vertretern 4 gegen 6, bei 13 Vertretem 5 gegen 8.—Pp. 5-8.

The above examples are followed by others showing the operation of the system if parties were more numerous, and also exhibiting the effect in the cases of specific elections referred to.

"The first table exhibits a supposed number of actual and possible votes for candidates A, B, and (counting the first uncancelled votes as the first possible votes, the second as the second, and so on), and the second table contains their relative value. The actual and possible votes of C, as it will be seen, amount in the aggregate to less than those of B and A, and the name of C would, therefore, be first cancelled. Some of the votes for G would, perhaps, by the voting papers, be next given to A or B, and the computation would then be made again, and the lowest on the poll again struck of until the process can be no longer continued, and effect is given to every vote, so far as the elector has enabled that to be done.