Word: counts
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Vote-counting will take place in the gym of the Longfellow Elementary School. Workers count the votes by hand under Cambridge's complicated proportional representation system...
...most cities, you vote and then go home and listen to the returns on the radio. Not in Cambridge, where it takes at least a week to count all the ballots and figure...
...most elections all you need to know to vote is how to pull a lever or scratch an X. Not so in Cambridge, where ability to count is required, and a master's degree in logic encouraged...
...first) bastion of strict proportional representation (residents affectionately call it PR) in the country. To understand the system, let's follow a hypothetical voter through the electoral process--from the voting booth to the floor of the gymnasium, where a corps of veteran pollsters gather every two years to count the ballots...
...still be wondering why slates are important in the city, why many candidates feel it is helpful to ally with others of similar (or in the case of the CCC, somewhat similar) views. The reason is proportional representation, Cambridge's fruitcake balloting system. Because ballots can count for a voter's second or third choice candidate if his first preference wins big or is eliminated from the running, it pays to give voters a list of identifiable candidates. It has also served as a useful way for Cantabrigians to clearly define the issues facing the city--CCA candidates, for example...