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Cambridge uses a complex ranking system in its City Council election in which voters can list multiple preferences, and relative candidate rankings are taken into account in determining the nine members of the body.
“You only get one vote in a Cambridge election, and it needs to be the number one vote. That’s very hard to get,” says Glenn S. Koocher ’71, a 12-year veteran of the Cambridge School Committee.
But Koocher said these factors did not necessarily preclude the possibility of election.
“If [the U.N.] throws out the whole election, Afghanistan’s going to go without an effective government for some period of time,” he said.
In results released in mid-September, incumbent Hamid Karzai won 54.6 percent of the vote, enough to win re-election. But extensive reports of fraud mean that the final results will depend upon investigations and recounts already underway.