Word: quota
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...basis of the total vote, a quota needed for election is determined (it is one tenth of the total plus one). Some candidates can meet the quota from their "number one" votes. They are declared elected and any ballots they have in surplus of the quota are re-distributed to those who are listed second on the ballot (those who have received the "number two votes"). At the same time, those with the least number of "number one votes" are declared defeated and their ballots are given to those second on the list. This process of elimination and redistribution continues...
...operates this way: a voter can vote for as many candidates as he pleases. He lists the candidates in order of preference (1. 2. 3...etc.). All the ballots are first given to the candidate who has the "number one vote." On the basis of total turnout, a quota (1/10 of the vote plus one) needed for election is determined. If any of the candidates has enough number one votes" to meet the quota (two or three men usually do), they are declared elected. Then any of their votes in excess of the quota are distributed to the person...
Some of the demonstrators may face an even more horrendous fate-Army duty in Viet Nam. The Pentagon last week issued a draft call for 45,224 men in December, the largest monthly quota since the Korean War. They may be needed. Last July, when President Johnson ordered an increase in the size of the armed forces, he predicted that monthly inductions would rise to only 35,000 men. However, instead of a planned buildup of 125,000 U.S. troops in Viet Nam, the U.S. force there has already grown to 145,000, and it will pass...
...Reform Bill, which was one of President Johnson's major legislative objectives, wipes out some of the obvious inadequacies of the National Origins System enacted in 1924. The present quota system allows only 158,561 immigrants annually with a 70 per cent allotment going to Britain, Ireland, and Germany...
Commenting on the hemisphere quota, Sen. Jacob K. Javits (Rep. N.Y.) said that the limit would disturb "the unique relationship that exists among the nations of the new world...I think this limitation will contribute to the impairment of better hemispheric relations in which we have been so intensely interested...