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Cambridge’s candidates Flaherty, E. Denise Simmons, and Dennis A. Benzan garnered 46, 31, and 13 percent of the city’s votes, respectively. DiDomenico won 6 percent of Cambridge ballots—173 votes—and Michael J. Albano earned the remaining 3 percent. Less...
There were no Republican candidates in the race, so yesterday’s Democratic primary was the main event of the special election. In the general contest on May 11, DiDomenico will face Independent candidate John Cesan, a resident of Agawam.
For centuries, our elections have suffered from a flawed, plurality voting system. Our system produces outcomes in which the winning candidate often does not represent the policy preferences of the majority of voters. In the presidential election of 1844, when slave-owner James Polk defeated widely-respected abolitionist Henry Clay...
In the modern era, the 2000 election was the most notable example of a case in which voters’ preferences were not properly represented. Through our plurality voting system, a right-of-center candidate took office despite the fact that a clear majority of the public voted for liberal...
That is not to say that the directors of undergraduate studies in each department have no valuable contribution to add to the election process. PBK should welcome more information about the quality of each candidate, not less. After all, directors of each department are the people who are most familiar...