Word: pr
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...only Cambridge, alone of U.S. cities, still uses. Some 25 cities used it earlier in this century. They adopted it so minorities would have a better chance of election; they generally got rid of it when unpopular minorities got elected. Now, only in Cambridge can you savor the weeklong PR count...
...voters want make sure that the people in your area get their share of city services and milk ethnic and neighborhood sentiment for all the votes they're worth. That's the way it's been in the City-at least since 1941, when Cambridge adopted the Proportional Representation (PR) system, which places a premium on getting a solid-not necessarily large-group of voters to back a candidate year in and year...
Whether the rent control advocates play the rules of the PR system will determine in large measure how much impact they have on the election results. If they cast "bullets" (voting only for a first choice candidates, without listing other choices), their impact will end once their first choice candidates are eliminated as most probably will...
...GIVEN PR's aim of increasing minority representation, one of the more interesting questions about the race is the fate of the three black candidates: Thomas Coates (CCA), School Committeeman Gustave M. Solomons (CCA), and Henry F. Owen III (Ind.). Of the three, Coates appears to have the most strength. A former councilor, he began running again moments after he was defeated in 1967. Yet, if he or another black is to win, the black voters will have to mark their ballots one, two, three for the three black candidates. The frontrunner will probably still need some more support from...
...problem Hayes faces is, of course, how to get enough number one votes to get elected. He faces stiff opposition from Francis Duchay, a professor at the Ed School and a School Committee member, and several other liberal candidates whose ideas are close to Hayes'. The trouble with the PR system is that it forces all candidates to run city-wide and pits similar candidates against each other for support. Hayes never attacks Duchay or any of the other candidates, rather he tries to concentrate specifically on selling his own program...