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...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...
Hayes will need support both from East Cambridge and from Brattle Street to win. In the Proportional Representation (PR) system under which Cambridge operates, however, this may be a difficult combination to muster, for above all Hayes needs number one votes, the rest don't mean much...
Under Cambridge PR, a voter ranks the candidates in order of his preference by writing 1, 2, 3, etc. next to their names on the ballot. The number of votes needed to be elected is determined by dividing the total number of votes cast by the number of candidates plus one and then adding one to the quotient...
...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...