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...number of votes cast by the number of seats to be filled plus one. Then, add one vote to the quotient and there's the quota. The idea behind sitting the quota at this level is to make it low enough for candidates supported by a minority group to get elected, and high enough to make the elections more than a matter of chance...
...Clinton? You watch: he's going to get Sullivan votes. He'll get two, there hundred of Walter's surplus...
Much of the grousing about the count itself is probably unfair. In fact, today's counts are, by general sentiment, models of efficiency compared to those done in the first years after Cambridge adopted the PR system in 1941. In one election then, it took nearly a month to get the results...
...counterpart of minority representation is, however, often a Cambridge City Council which cannot muster a cohesive majority. Though PR candidates run at-large, the system places a premium on "number ones." To get them, candidates most often appeal to a small group. Once on the council, they are often more interested in divvying up the current pie of City services among their voters than in planning much expansion of said services...
Wilson said yesterday that asking a student to vacate his living quarters he saw as "an extreme measure" that should be invoked only if there is some urgent reason to get a person off the campus. Each student's case must be considered within seven days' of his suspension, he said, and "why should we ask someone to move out of Eliot. House into the Treadway Motor Inn for seven days...