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Under the Hare proportional representation system, voters rank the candidates. Candidates are elected if they meet a quota of votes, and their excess votes are transferred to the next-ranked candidate. Low candidates' votes are also redistributed in later rounds...
...called the Hare Proportional Representation System (PR) and Cambridge is the only municipality in the country that still uses...
Under the council's "hare proportional vote" balloting scheme, voters indicate the order of preference they hold for candidates. Thus, candidates have a better chance of victory if they have a smaller group of voters who strongly support them rather than a larger group of voters who grudgingly support them, according to last year's council Secretary David L. Duncan...
...runs off and reappears as a huge percolator walking a tiny man-shaped marionette. A pixilated sleight-of- hand artist puts a bunny in a box (ho-hum), pulls out an air pump (hmmm), attaches same to box and pumps mightily (what?), and finally produces not the expected exploding hare but a live jumbo rabbit who appears to be only slightly smaller than a Shetland. All right, all right -- it's still only a big bunny, but it seems so large because the Chaplin-Thierree inspiration expands audience perception even while teasing...
Evan B. Rauch this week undertook an unprecedented--and by some accounts, overblown--effort to see whether the council would like him to run for a second-semester term, given his stated intention to step down in April. Rauch employed the Hare System of proportional voting, an extremely complicated, but reportedly effective, balloting system straight out of the pages of John Stuart Mill...