Word: ballots
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...TIME'S Nation staff in New York, the tension remained high right to the end. During Wednesday's final Senate vote, they gathered around television sets, and Reporter-Researchers Betty Satterwhite Sutter and Robert Burger, who checked the cover story, tallied the totals ballot by ballot. Senior Writer George Church, who wrote the story, was impressed by President Reagan's ability to turn the tide that had seemed to be running so strongly against him. "If I'd bet on the outcome, I would have lost," he says. "You should never underestimate the persuasive power...
...Cambridge City Council voted unanimously last spring to put the question on the ballot after receiving a petition with 1600 signatures collected by COCA, Adams said. The council also sent the White House and Massachusetts' congressional representatives a statement opposing Reagan's policies toward Central America...
...first count, their surplus will be distributed to the next candidates. There is only one maxim to remember here: CCA votes are much more likely to transfer to other CCA candidates. Therefore, if David Sullivan and Walter Sullivan each went a few hundred over the quota, when their extra ballots were redistributed, David's would likely aid other CCA candidates more than Walter's would help other Independents. The same is also true later in the week-long count, when candidates are eliminated one by one for having too few votes. When a CCA candidate is eliminated, the ballot...
...thing to remember about PR voting is that you will not benefit your favorite candidate by voting for him and no one else. And you could very well help your second and third choice candidate by including them, in rank order, on your ballot...
Slowly more candidates are declared winners, based on the addition of transfer ballots, until nine new city councilors and six new school committee members have been elected. In theory the transfer process could continue indefinitely through the rankings on each ballot, but in practice, the PR counting rarely continues through the fourth or fifth ranking on each ballot...