Word: ballots
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...last night, the preliminary results of the ballot count showed the winners, in descending order according to number of votes received, as Alice L. Turkel, E. Denise Simmons, Alfred Fantini, Joseph Grassi, Susana M. Segat and Nancy Walser...
...candidates are still proliferating, at least--24 City Council candidates were listed on the ballot yesterday, as opposed to 19 two years...
...reason is that the bread and butter issue of Cambridge politics--rent control--is off the ballot, and its return isn't imminent...
Candidates are reluctant to say that--advocating the return of rent control is a popular stance--but the likelihood of rent control making a comeback as a galvanizing issue is faint. And while there was an effort to get a rent-control initiative on the ballot, even rent control advocates admit its only purpose was to get people to the polls...
...strategy was to put the question on the ballot not because it would win," said Glenn S. Koocher '71, a local political analyst, on Sunday...