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Cambridge has used Proportional Representation (PR) as its voting system since 1941. PR "ensures minority representation with majority control," according to the Cambridge Election Commission's Web site...

Author: By Edward B. Colby, | Title: Cambridge's "PR" Voting System Explained | 11/1/1999 | See Source »

...Nancy is preserving a shocked silence...I can recognize her voice in some of the things George Will has been saying--he is her current PR representative. Some one told me the other day that when you go to George Wills' house he has a whole corridor of pictures of Nancy Reagan...

Author: By Christina B. Roseberger, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Reagan's | 10/15/1999 | See Source »

...Cambridge the best way you get votes under PR is through personal contact," she says...

Author: By Edward B. Colby, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Just one Vote | 10/13/1999 | See Source »

Thanks to Cambridge's unique system of proportional representation (PR) voting (please see sidebar), it can take as few as 1,688 votes to get a seat on the City Council...

Author: By Edward B. Colby, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Just one Vote | 10/13/1999 | See Source »

...Certainly because of PR voters don't write anybody off," Koocher says. "It's like trying to pick which of your friends you like the best...

Author: By Edward B. Colby, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Just one Vote | 10/13/1999 | See Source »

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