_Third_: Then there is the Hare plan of proportional representation and the single transferable vote.[13] To insure an election a candidate need only obtain a “quota” of the votes cast--i.e., that number of votes which can be obtained by the number of candidates equal to the number of places to be filled, but by no more. Thus if the electorate number 5,000 and there are 5 places to be filled, the “quota” or number of votes required for an election would be 834. Five persons could receive this number of votes, but the sixth candidate could not do so. Each voter is allowed to indicate his first, second, third, and other choices, but can indicate only one first choice and one second choice, etc. At the first count only first choices are reckoned and the candidates who have received a “quota” or more according to first choices are declared elected. If all the places have not then been filled up, the surplus votes of those candidates who have received more than the “quota” are transferred according to the names marked (2) on them. If these transfers do not bring the requisite number of candidates up to the “quota,” the lowest candidate is eliminated and his votes transferred according to the next preference, and so on until all the places are filled. The object of this plan is to give representation to minorities or to groups less than a majority. So far as the disruption of extra-legal government by politocrats is concerned, it is doubtful if it makes any difference which of the above plans of election be adopted in commission-governed municipalities which as a whole constitute only a single wieldy district of, let us say, not to exceed 6,000 male voters and 50,000 inhabitants.