Word: pr
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Cambridge Young Democrats filed a petition this week demanding a recount of the ballots which endorsed the city's PR system of voting by 455 votes. During the campaign, the group urged abolishment of PR...
...Democrats and ten Republicans will recount the ballots in the Commissioner's office; representatives of both the Young Democrats and the Cambridge Civic Association, which supports the PR system, will be present...
...intensive campaign by the Young Democrats brought PR closer to defeat than at any time in the past 20 years. Lawrence W. Brennan, president of the group, said yesterday, "We don't plan to fold up our tents and go away...
According to Massachusetts law, the question of proportional representation cannot be placed on the ballot again for four years. Several opponents of PR have hinted that if they lose this election they will attempt to get the law changed at the next session of the State Legislature...
Yesterday Brennan said that the vote "was not the will of the people but a satchel delivered by the transient liberals who make Cambridge a laboratory for their crackpot theories." He attributed the PR victory to the great strength of the system's chief advocate, the Cambridge Civic Association, in a few isolated city wards...