On the other hand, project B could not be supported. The establishment, the examination, and the publication of each of the lists of candidates for each of the three degrees to which the division of seats would be made, must offer serious difficulties, given the brief time to which would be reduced the preparations of elections. According to Article 63 of the Constitution, elections must be held at the latest on the sixtieth day after the expiration of the legislature or the dissolution of the Reichstag. Electoral authorities could not, except with hasty and desperate work, assure in such a short space of time the preparation of elections of the three degrees. In addition, system B has the inconvenience of requiring a considerable number of candidates before it is possible to foretell, even approximately, how many candidates of each of the two first degrees would be elected. It is true, however, that it had the advantage of reducing to a minimum the number of candidates elected on the ticket for the Reich. Finally, project C, in giving to groups of electors the choice of either presenting district tickets or joining groups of neighbouring districts in presenting a common ticket, answered best the need of parties to dispose their forces most effectively within the different districts. It permitted them, so to speak, to group their districts according to their fancy, following their particular needs. This was in outline the system which the Government designed and submitted to the Reichsrat. But before this assembly finished its scrutiny of it the events of March, 1920, transpired, completely changing the political situation and rendering general elections imperative for the following June. Instead of examining thoroughly, as it had been their intention, the project submitted by the Government, the National Assembly, in considering this project on March 27, was compelled to pass to a vote as quickly as possible. Neither did the Government defend its project with any particular consistency. Minister of the Interior Koch explained that the Government adhered above all to the principle of the automatic system and to the grouping of fractions into a ticket for the Reich. As for the division of German territory into new electoral districts, smaller and more equal in extent than those which had served in the election of the National Assembly, but districts that could be united into “groups of districts,” that was an interesting innovation. But if this was to be effected it would be necessary to adopt in their ensemble the projects admitted to the Assembly. Meanwhile the question presented itself whether the party organizations would be able to accommodate themselves to so radical a change in the division of districts, given the brief delay which would be accorded them until the elections. The Minister referred the question to the deputies themselves to answer, as being in closer contact with the organizations of their parties.