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...vote-getters achieve “quota”—one-tenth of the total votes cast—the rest of the votes in their piles are transferred to the next candidate on each ballot...
...DeBergalis was not elected under the city’s unusual system of proportional representation, in which each voter ranks candidates and each rank on the ballot matters—the number one votes count most, but the other slots on the ballot count...
...candidates had to wait until almost 1 a.m. to hear the unofficial results of the ballot transfers, after the ballot counting machine in the two precincts overloaded and those ballots had to be recounted...
Other city officials speculated that Walser raked up votes because she was the sole woman on the ballot after committee member Alice L. Turkel decided not to run for re-election...
...think this is unlike any other home rule petition,” he said. “If we do succeed at the ballot tomorrow, the petition will be sent forward by the people of Cambridge and not the City Council. I think that makes a bit of a difference...