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Election commissioner Sandra Scheir described student voting as "awfully good." In precinct 6-3, where freshmen and most River House residents vote, turnout increased more than 50 per cent over two years ago. High turnout there could aid council challenger David Sullivan, who was endorsed by several student groups. Returns from Ward 6, Precinct 4, where Mather, Dunster and the Leverett House Towers vote, were unavailable...
White picked up many of the votes cast in the preliminary election for Boston School Committee President David Finnegan--and in the city's black wards, where he was beaten by State Rep Melvin H. King in the primary, he humiliated his challenger...
Among the candidates themselves, only an intricate arrangement for billings and credits prevents squabbles. For example: each candidate's literature also lists the entire slate. But not in alphabetical order, presumably because that would aid Francis Duehay and hurt David Wylie. So candidates begin the list with the name closest after theirs in the alphabet and work through it to the beginning...
Kevin White admits that after 12 years the voters are looking for an alternative. But he has staked his campaign on the belief that Joe Timilty is not the man they're looking for. In fact, over the last eight years, none of the alternatives--Louise Day Hicks, David Finnegan, Mel King or Timilty--has drawn enough balanced support to unseat the mayor...
...Boston, Dorchester, West Roxbury and Hyde Park. Timilty traditionally wins in the high-turnout Irish areas. He has never won by much; and the vote seems to be more anti-White than pro-Timilty. But the state senator lost nearly half his 1975 support there to School Committee President David Finnegan. Timilty needs these votes back in his column to have a chance tomorrow. Timilty must also pick up some black and liberal votes to counter White's rising popularity with the Irish. Yet he has done little to win liberal voter's support, evidenced by the ambivalent semi-endorsement...