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...Cambridge's system of Hare proportional representation voting, residents may support a list of candidates, but their number 1 vote remains the most important. Sullivan, who led the drive to give students their voice in city politics in the first place, has shown himself to be an effective legislator and an able spokesman. Harvard undergraduates should list him at the top of their ballots, followed by the other five progressive candidates...
Because Cambridge selects city officials with a complicated system of proportional representation voting first outlined by English lawyer Edward Hare in 1859, election results will not be available for several days. Counting the paper ballots involves transferring votes from one candidate to another as contenders either reach a quota of 10 percent of the votes cast or are eliminated for having the lowest total in a particular round of processing...
Under Cambridge's Hare Proportional system of voting, a candidate needs about 10,000 votes to be elected...
Under Cambridge's Hare Proportional System of voting, a candidate needs about 10,000 votes to be elected, and Russell predicted that out of the 7000 members of the local gay community, about 2000 would actually be at the polls on Election...
...diversity of causes and interests at times made for a certain cliquishness, with union and church groups, dressed in identical T shirts, sticking together. At one point, a small band of Hare Krishnas moved along the sidewalk, oblivious to a Pennsylvania group a few feet away carrying signs advocating peace in Central America. In the shade of an old beech tree near by, a band of antinuclear activists stood in a circle, hands linked, eyes closed, as a middle-aged woman in braids and a long skirt led them in prayer...