Word: pr
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...thing to remember about PR voting is that you will not benefit your favorite candidate by voting for him and no one else. And you could very well help your second and third choice candidate by including them, in rank order, on your ballot...
...achieve that result, however, the city annually puts up with the tedious ritual of counting votes according to the PR scheme. It takes a week or more, and to pass this time of political anxiety more easily, city pols annually turn the tabulation process at the Longfellow School into something of a social event...
After any candidate who surpasses quotas is declared elected, the PR process begins to get complicated. Let's assume that this year, Walter Sullivan gets 200 more votes than the quota. A random sample of 200 of his supporting ballots are then extracted from his pile of ballots, and sorted according to the number two vote on each one. Any of the surplus ballots that are not marked with a second choice are discarded...
Because the weakest candidates are taken out of the race faster than the strongest ones, the losing candidates' transfer ballots play the most decisive transfer role in the PR system...
Slowly more candidates are declared winners, based on the addition of transfer ballots, until nine new city councilors and six new school committee members have been elected. In theory the transfer process could continue indefinitely through the rankings on each ballot, but in practice, the PR counting rarely continues through the fourth or fifth ranking on each ballot...