THE SINGLE TRANSFERABLE VOTE
REGULATIONS FOR THE ELECTION OF SENATORS UNDER THE SOUTH AFRICA ACT, 1909
I. In these Regulations:—
(1) "Continuing Candidates" mean candidates not elected or not excluded from the poll at any given time.
(2) "First Preference" means the figure 1 set opposite the name of any candidate; "second preference" similarly means the figure 2; "third preference" the figure 3, and so on.
(3) "Unexhausted papers" mean ballot papers on which a further preference is recorded for a continuing candidate.
(4) "Exhausted papers" mean ballot papers on which no further preference is recorded for a continuing candidate, provided that a paper shall also be deemed to be exhausted in any case in which—
(a) The names of two or more candidates, whether continuing or not, are marked with the same figure and are next in order of preference, or
(b) The name of the candidate next in order of preference, whether continuing or not, is marked
(i) By a figure not following consecutively after some other figure on the ballot paper, or