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...Ballot Proposition One, which would have petitioned the state legislature to exempt Cambridge from a state law banning rent control, needed one third of Cambridge’s 56,000 registered voters to support...
Although the council could still submit such a petition, all of last night’s newly elected councillors except for Kenneth E. Reeves ’72 went on record opposing the ballot measure before the election. Reeves said that the council should send a petition only if the “overwhelming majority” of voters supported...
Rent control ended in Cambridge in 1994, when a statewide ballot referendum outlawed the practice...
Avid onlookers cram into the hallway of the Cambridge Senior Center to make room for ballot boxes as election staffers struggle find order—and data—in an endless stream of identical envelopes, confused poll attendants, and failing technology...
When a candidate gets enough votes to reach “quota,” the threshold for election, the rest of his or her votes are transferred to the next candidate on the ballot...