Word: balloting
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...20th ballot, the Cambridge City Council unanimously elected Councillor Sheila T. Russell as mayor...
Even after the final ballot was handcounted and the votes distributed under Cambridge's system of proportional representation, the city council still had to select a mayor from among its members at its first meeting in January...
...truism that children can't vote, but Sylvia Ann Hewlett, author of When the Bough Breaks: The Costs of Neglecting Our Children, has discovered that their parents don't vote either. In the last national election, only 39% of adults with children at home cast a ballot, as compared with 61% of the elderly. During the 1950s, says Hewlett, who runs a nonprofit organization aimed at getting parents to the polls, 65% of parents voted...
...anti-gay ordinances, Cole says conservative groups will probably look for ways to circumvent the ruling. "I wouldn't be surprised if right-wing groups try to find a different way to attack homosexuals," Cole says. "This will not signal an end to legislative and ballot initiatives attacking the civil rights of gays and lesbians. They will try and craft the laws to use different language than the court struck down." The ruling comes at a critical moment when a constitutional battle over another aspect of gay rights -->