Word: grahams
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Graham said on Tuesday night, as the returns came into her Central Square campaign headquarters, that she would "absolutely" challenge the election, asking for a revote. Although her campaign provided a litany of charges of improper voting procedures--from the disqualification of votes clearly meant for her to the inability of poll workers to explain the mechanics of her "sticker" campaign--Graham has yet to file any formal charges with the Cambridge Election Commission...
...Graham campaign officials said they are still mulling over the evidence before deciding finally whether to contest Thompson's victory. Under state law, Graham has 10 days from Election Day to ask for a recount, and 30 days to mount a legal challenge of results. Currently, the 16,536 city ballots sit in a vault...
...contest for Graham's State House seat has produced bitter accusations on both sides and sharply divided the East Cambridge neighborhoods that make up the 28th Middlesex district. Thompson charged that Graham had lost touch with her community and become inaccessible over the course of her 17-year political career...
...response, Graham has tried to portray Thompson, a truant officer with a long recond of community activism but no experience in elected office, as a friend of developers and an opponent of rent-control and affordable housing...
...present disputes, however, center on Graham's use of stickers to assist supporters in voting for her. But instead simplifying matters, the sticker campaign appears to have been the prime cause of widespread chaos at the polls Tuesday...