Word: ballots
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Under the system, if the no. 1 choice marked on a ballot has already received enough votes to ensure a seat on the council the ballot serves for the no. 2 choice...
...hardly surprising that, facing a dauntingly complex ballot, almost 57% of the electorate failed to vote last week in Poland's first free parliamentary elections since World War II. Even more frustrated by the country's failure to achieve postcommunist prosperity, those who did go to the polls chose no clear victor and no clear course for the nation: 29 parties will be represented in Poland's 460-seat lower house, and none will have more than 62 seats...
...second candidate on the ballot has also reached the necessary quota, the votes go to the number three ballot choice. The votes of candidates who fail to reach the quota are redistributed in the same...
Under Cambridge's system of proportional representation any votes a candidate earns above the quota are redistributed to the second choice on the ballot...
...second candidate on the ballot has also reached the necessary quota the votes go to the number three ballot choice...