Word: quota
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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After Cyr was retired, Myers led incumbentIndependent Thomas M. Danehy briefly, and he had achance to push out Danehy and join Graham on theCouncil. But the transfers from Independent DanielClinton, who was in eleventh place, pushed Danehyto within 100 votes of the quota and all butguaranteed his seat...
Under Cambridge's proportional representation system, the ballots must be counted, redistributed, and recounted many times to decide the election. In the Council race, election commissioners first establish a "quota" of votes necessary to elect a Councilor based on the number of ballots cast...
Candidates with a quota of more number-one votes are automatically elected. To seat the Council, the election commissioners divide up the ballots among the candidates by number-one votes...
...candidate with the most number-ones is seated first. Then, the commissioners take away ballots from this person's pile, picking them at random, until only a "quota" is left to the newly elected councilor's credit...
Eventually the election commissioners come to a candidate who has less than a quota of ballots to his or her credit. At this point they eliminate the candidate with the fewest number-one votes and transfers, and redistribute the ballots he or she had received...