We publish elsewhere an article inviting our readers to take
part in a test election which is being organised by the Society for Proportional Representation. If they vote, we can assure them that there is no possibility of manipulation or any sort of unfairness in the counting, and that those who mark the ballot-paper according to their preference, or, if they will, according to the line of least political dislike, will find their wishes exactly carried out. The system employed makes operative with accuracy the wishes of the person who says to himself : " The man out of that list that I should most like to, get in would be Smith, but if Smith is in before my vote comes to be counted, or again, if he cannot possibly get in because there are not enough people who agree with we in wanting him in, then I would rather see Jones in than any of the others ; and after him Robinson, and then Brown, even though for some reasons I do not care very much for either."
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