Word: pr
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...pick up support from their collegues' surplus ballots. The CCA slate, a group of 13 (8 for city council and 5 for school committee) candidates who favor rent control, oppose condominium conversion, and support affirmative action, traditionally elects several members on the strength of transfer ballots in the PR system...
...PR voting, while obviously aiding many of the marginal candidates, deals its greatest advantage to the city's minority groups. Minorities--not only in terms of ethnic or racial background, but also small groups divided by neighborhood or issue--stand to gain from the PR process...
...simple result of the intricate PR tabulation scheme is that it takes far less than a majority of the citizens of Cambridge to elect a city councilor or school committee member. Ten per cent will...
...consensus is that PR voting, though confusing to new voters, works. A movement during the last several years to abolish the PR system in Cambridge--used also in New York City School board contests--seems to have died, Duehay says...
Help keep PR working; bring a scorecard to the polls...