Proportional
Representation Society of
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Regimenting Voters by Letting
Parties Decide the Order of Candidates’ Names
on Ballot-papers |
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The Relatively Even Distribution of First Preference
Votes at Tasmanian House of Assembly polls since Hare-Clark
PR was first used for Tasmania-wide Assembly polls in 1909 |
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The Grossly Uneven Distribution of First Preference Votes at Australian
Senate
polls
since proportional representation was first used for nation-wide Senate
polls, in 1949 |
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How major parties’
obsession with regimentation often causes them to lose the last position to be filled |
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History of Senate ballot-paper design in |
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The Hare-Clark system avoids regimenting voters. |
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Law creating Senate PR deliberately continued regimentation. |