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...write-in candidate.“Running a write-in campaign is going to be immensely challenging, especially with Cambridge’s complicated election system,” said Councillor Craig A. Kelley.Under the City’s single-vote-transfer proportional-representation system, each voter ranks nine candidates for the Council, including write-ins. Candidates who are ranked first on ten percent of ballots are declared elected. Any extra ballots they receive beyond the ten percent quota are redistributed to the candidates marked next in preference on those excess ballots.The count continues with the elimination of those candidates...
...club’s meetings, according to Garland, who termed the turnout “unprecedented.” Currently, Garland said, the group—which changed its name last semester from the Biseuxal, Gay, Lesbian, Transgender, and Supporters Alliance—has “anywhere between nine and 700 members,” depending who is counted: board members or people on the e-mail list. Attendees proposed different ways to involve more of Harvard’s queer community in the organization. While Garland and Chan also discussed the possibility of continuing to make decisions through...
...person listens, Frankowski believes, and that's why back home in Alabama she arranged to have 10 large signs made on white foam board, nine of them marked with a big letter and the tenth with we and a heart. Raised aloft, the signs spelled...
...would generate trillions of dollars in benefits. If we want a world that it is worth having health care in, then we must not let opponents of the bill take control of this issue. Evidence suggests that the benefits of this legislation exceed the costs by up to a nine-to-one ratio. Now we must turn that evidence into action...
...seminal moment of the financial crisis—the stimulus plan was being drafted just as the stock market headed for record lows. Within a week, Stein had passed his spring teaching duties to Visiting Professor Owen A. Lamont and was on his way south after nine years at Harvard...