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group on other ballot papers and so on, so as to share out the positions.

 •    The same principle will apply to the printing of independent candidates' names in the column for independents on the ballot paper.

 SCHEDULE 5—continued

 • Instructions on the ballot paper will require voters to show preferences (1, 2 and so on) for as many candidates as there are vacancies to be filled in the electorate concerned. Voters will have the option of showing as many further preferences as they wish. Seats will then be allocated to the candidates using the Hare-Clark system of proportional representation, as used at elections for the Tasmanian House of Assembly:

   -      Candidates will have to achieve a quota of votes in order to be elected. The quota will be determined by dividing the number of formal votes by 1 more than the number of vacancies to be filled, and adding 1 to the number so obtained (disregarding any remainder).

   -      If an elected candidate obtains surplus votes (i.e. votes in excess of the quota), the votes will be transferred to other candidates in the count.

   -      If vacancies remain to be filled after surplus votes have been transferred, the candidates standing lowest on the count will be excluded and their votes transferred to the remaining candidates who stood next highest in the relevant voters' preferences.

   -      This process of distributing the surplus votes of elected candidates and of excluding candidates will continue until all the vacancies have been filled.

 •    If a member dies, resigns, or otherwise vacates his or her seat, the vacancy will be filled by a fresh examination of the ballot papers bearing the votes which elected him or her, to determine which of the available candidates who failed to be elected was most preferred by the voters who chose the former member.

 •    The boundaries of electorate(s) will be drawn by bodies independent of the Commonwealth and ACT governments. The criteria which govern the drawing of the boundaries of House of Representatives divisions will apply as nearly as practicable to the drawing of the boundaries of Legislative Assembly electorates.

 •    A redrawing of boundaries should take place in the first 12 months after each general election of members of the Legislative Assembly.".

                  SCHEDULE 6 Section 13

   NEW SCHEDULE 4 TO BE ADDED TO PRINCIPAL ACT

                  "SCHEDULE 4 Section 35

BALLOT PAPERS

FORMAT 1

Please put the number '1' in one of the boxes below to show which electoral system you believe should be used to elect members to the Australian Capital Territory Legislative Assembly. Leave the other box empty.

EITHER

A single member electorates system □

(as outlined in the Commonwealth's Referendum Options Description Sheet)

OR