This mechanism represents obvious advantages. It insures to each party exactly as many members as it should receive according to the number of votes cast for it throughout the whole state. It realizes the greatest possible use of remnants of votes, and consequently satisfies as completely as possible the exigencies of proportional representation. All attempts by the government or by a majority at a cunning and dishonest division of the country into artificial electoral districts are thus eliminated. In addition this system permits the possibility on the part of parties to give seats to candidates who have exceptional parliamentary experience and who play political rôles of the first order, but who despise mixing in local political struggles, such as may be considered among the principal influences in the lowering of the personal character of parliament. The ticket of the Reich permits each elector to vote at the same time for the man in whom the locality has confidence, who knows the needs of his districts and of his electors, as well as for the leaders who direct his party. The system of Baden can be in turn applied in different modes. To give the public a chance to discuss these modes and to pronounce on this matter, the government of the Reich in January, 1920, published three advance projects of electoral law, each project defining and regulating a particular modality. Project A introduced the Baden system in its purest form. It provided for electoral districts in which the number of voters was generally sufficient to elect six members; the unutilized votes in each district would be immediately summed up in a ticket for the Reich, where representation would be apportioned in the same manner as within the district. Project B provided for electoral districts of four members each. But between the district tickets and the ticket for the Reich there would be a third: several adjoining electoral districts being united in “a group of districts,” in which lists called “tickets of the groups of districts” would have to be presented. The unutilized votes in the electoral districts would be first added up within the “union of districts” and credited to the ticket of this union. The ticket for the Reich would then receive only the unutilized fractions of each group.