Word: quota
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Experts had predicted the finish from the first count, but the final results were delayed by Cambridge's antiquated system of proportional representation. Under this system, voters rank candidates in order of preference, and candidates are elected when they reach a quota or percentage of all votes. Their surplus votes and the votes of eliminated candidates are redistributed to the next person listed on each ballot...
Cooper was the only candidate to reach the quota in the first round of voting Cooper, who was anxious to give credit "to all those people who trooped out to ring door bells and miss their dinners for me," urged Harvard students to take an interest in public education...
Rena Leib was the second candidate to reach quota. "It was a pretty good showing for a first time candidate and that feels good," she said yesterday, adding that she hoped the school committee would "focus on setting policy and holding administration to it, rather than wasting time on trivial grievances...
Graham and Wolf, along with Walter Sullivan and Vellucci, reached quota on number one votes alone...
Branson's transfers, however, went primarily to Clinton, pushing him over the 2899 voters needed for quoto, and to Danehy. They also brought Russell to quota...