allocation method, also known as the largest remainder method The Single Transferable Vote method has been widely used for multiple-winner elections. While continuing to be the main method of elections in the Republic of Ireland and for some elections in Australia, it has been widely used in numerous corporations and organizations, and has been employed in local elections in a few jurisdictions of the United States. 2007 saw the reintroduction of STV in public elections on the British mainland in elections to Scottish local authorities. STV had been used for elections to Parliament for some University Seats from 1918 to 1945 and from 1918 to 1929 for Scottish boards. Mill described Hare's system as "the greatest improvement of which the system of representative government is susceptible; an improvement which…exactly meets and cures the grand, and what before seemed inherent, defect of the representative system". Hare, not a mathematician, never subjected his STV system to a rigorous mathematical analysis. Law reports Hare also obtained minor fame in an entirely different field: law reporting. At a time when there were no official reports of judicial decisions, Hare published reports of key decisions of the courts to enable them to be used as precedents. Two key judicial decisions, which are still frequently cited today, are reported only in Hare's Reports in Chancery: Henderson v Henderson (1843) 3 Hare 100, from which the rule known as "the rule in Henderson v Henderson" is derived. Foss v Harbottle (1843) 2 Hare 461, from which the rule known as "the rule in Foss v Harbottle" is derived, and which is still the cornerstone of minority shareholder rights in company law in common law legal systems over 160 years later. The Hare law reports were published from 1841 to 1853. Works The machinery of representation (1857) A treatise on election of representatives, parliamentary and municipal (1859) The election of representatives parliamentary and municipal: a treatise (1865) References Attribution External links http://www.vladimir.izbirkom.ru/etc/vystuplenie_vn.pdf See also F.D. Parsons, Thomas Hare and Political Representation in Victorian Britain (Palgrave Macmillan, 2009) Hare–Clark electoral system 1806 births 1891 deaths British political scientists Voting theorists Single transferable vote