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Under Cambridge's proportional representation system, the ballots must be counted, redistributed, and recounted many times to decide the election. In the Council race, election commissioners first establish a "quota" of votes necessary to elect a Councilor based on the number of ballots cast...
...candidate with the most number-ones is seated first. Then, the commissioners take away ballots from this person's pile, picking them at random, until only a "quota" is left to the newly elected councilor's credit...
...city rent control system, while far from perfect, does make 15,000 apartments affordable to people who otherwise might not be able to find housing in the Cambridge. Yet this system is under attack from freshman Councilor William H. Walsh and several other conservative Independents. Last term, five of the nine Councilors defended and tried to improve the existing rent control system, but this majority may be endangered in tomorrow's election. If it vanishes, so will protection for thousands of tenants...
Cambridge's unusual proportional representation system permits voters to support as many Council candidates as they like, in order of preference. We suggest you head your ballot with the names of the seven pro-rent control candidates, and that you give your #1 vote--which counts most--to incumbent Councilor David E. Sullivan...
Incumbent Councilor Alfred E. Vellucci's unique brand of populism includes crucial support for rent control--he provides the outgoing Council's fifth "swing" vote to protect the system. Vellucci, however, opposes the CCA candidates' effort to create a "linkage" program that would help alleviate the pressures of development by requiring largescale builders to add to the stock of affordable housing...