Proportional Representation Society of Australia
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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 Australia |
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The Hare-Clark system avoids regimenting voters. |
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Law creating Senate PR deliberately continued regimentation. |