Hare System

Hare System
A form of proportional representation, whereby candidates for public office are not elected by their obtaining a majority or plurality of the votes cast, but by their obtaining a quota of a designated number of votes or a certain proportion of the entire vote, the electors being permitted to express second, third, or additional choices. Johnson v New York, 274 NY 411, 9 NE2d 30, 110 ALR 1502.

Ballentine's law dictionary. . 1998.

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