Word: balloters
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...Proportional Representation, the Cambridge method of voting for Council and School Committee. A single ballot lists the names of all candidates in alphabetical order (there are no primary elections) and without regard to party affiliation or other endorsement. The voter marks his first choice with a 1, second choice with a 2, etc., expressing as many preferences as he wishes. After each election a quota is established representing the smallest number of votes that will be counted to elect the proper number of people to each body. Then each candidate who achieves this quota is declared elected, until all places...
...count, each ballot represents only one vote; if a ballot cannot help the person markd as first choice--either because he is already elected or because he is obviously defeated--the vote goes to the second choice and so on. Thus, the ballot is transformed from pile to pile until it can help someone...
...office, he has pushed the newly Democratic legislature into remarkable action e.g., approval of the $1.8 billion water-resources development program (TIME, June 29), a $61 million income tax boost appropriated to close the budget gap. He has helped abolish California's party-damaging system of primary-ballot cross-filing, has brought stability to the long-fragmented Democratic Party. But his job has just begun: the statewide water-development plan, for example, must still be approved by the electorate next year. The state legislature will not get around to the juicy job of reapportioning California's legislative...
Marking 28 million Xs on ballot papers that carried no mark of party affiliations but simply the names of their parliamentary candidates in 630 local constituencies, the voters of the British Isles last week gave Maurice Harold Macmillan, 65, a smashing personal triumph in one of the most decisive and significant political battles of the postwar era. Macmillan had led his party to its third straight victory and doubled its majority in the House of Commons, a feat without parallel in the annals of British politics. Overcoming a slashing Labor Party challenge, he had won his own mandate to rule...
Cacareco got on the ballot through the offices of some prankish students who printed 200,000 ballots. When the results were in, everyone had a theory about the landslide. A psychologist proclaimed: "The public chose Cacareco as an image of solidarity symbolizing the Sunday family outing to the zoo." Brazil's politicians knew better. Partly, it was pure orneriness. It was also an expression of anger at local officials, who have done nothing about the city's unpaved streets and open sewers. And since those officials were members of the coalition that elected President Juscelino Kubitschek, they also...