Word: hares
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...vast to ignore. Traditionally, simply counting ballots for council elections meant an entire weekend of work for several people. Not only were members of the election commission required to spend hours simply tabulating ballots, they had to do so using a constitutionally required complex system called the "Hare proportional system." In an electronic system, ballot collection and tabulating is simple; it's what computers do best. Additionally, one may easily produce audits of computer-tabulated votes to appease disgruntled losing candidates...
Empathy also acts as a buffer to cruelty, and it is a quality conspicuously lacking in child molesters and psychopaths. Goleman cites some chilling research into brutality by Robert Hare, a psychologist at the University of British Columbia. Hare found that psychopaths, when hooked up to electrodes and told they are going to receive a shock, show none of the visceral responses that fear of pain typically triggers: rapid heartbeat, sweating and so on. How could the threat of punishment deter such people from committing crimes...
...According to our constitution and bylaws, we use the Hare proportional system to tally votes, which is the same as the class marshal elections," he said...
Races will be determined by the hare proportional system, a complex counting scheme also employed by the Cambridge City Council...
...William Hare Mashpee, Massachusetts...