Word: balloting
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Under Cambridge's antiquated system of proportional balloting, voters rank candidates in order of preference--one, two, three and so on. As a candidate reaches quota and is declared elected, his surplus votes are transferred to the candidate ranked second on the ballot. Then, the candidate with the fewest votes is eliminated in successive rounds and his ballots are similarly redistributed. This process continues until all the seats are filled...
Three Black candidates backed by the CCA--State Rep. Saundra K. Graham, Kenneth E. Reeves '72, and Renae Scott--are expected to vie for the city's 5000 registered minority voters. As the ballot tabulating progresses, observers say that Reeves and Scott will feed votes into Graham's pile and assure her reelection...
Although the number of registered voters has declined by nearly 5000 this year, three referenda questions on tomorrow's ballot are expected to bring out the feminist vote, Harvard-haters, and North Cambridge residents opposed to nerve gas testing in their own backyards...
After the distribution of 1 votes, candidates' surplus votes are distributed to the second choice on particular ballots. For example, if Alice Wolf's quota is 3000 votes, and she receives 3500, 500 random ballots are pulled from her stack. Then, each ballot is placed in the pile of its 2 candidate...
Bills similar to the one on the Cambridge ballot have been passed in Indianapolis and Minneapolis, but have been struck down by courts as unconstitutional violations of the First Amendment...