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The first rule to remember is that you are really only voting for one city councilor and one school committee member. The extra rankings are essentially meaningless unless your number one choice does not need your vote to win or if he has no chance of victory. If that happens...
Election workers begin by sorting the ballots by first choice vote. If any candidate receives over a certain quota of first choice votes (set by tradition at ten per cent of the total vote), he is automatically declared a winner. Two years ago, only one candidate, Walter Sullivan, managed this...
If a candidate exceeds this quota, the extra ballots are redistributed to the piles of ballots for number two choices. If no one tops the quota figure, then the candidate with the lowest number of ballots is declared defeated and his ballots are redistributed, again to the second choice candidates...
Proportional representation in the Cambridge sense of the phrase is a dying art--the Cambridge law, thanks to a glitch somewhere in the state processing system, was never officially published as a law and no recent statute exists which adequately lays down the rules. But Cambridge politicians adore it, even...
Timilty, on the other hand, has not proven that he could manage the complex issues City Hall must face. His record in the state senate--although strong on aid to the handicapped elderly--is mediocre overall. President Carter gave Timilty the chance to be a star when he named him...