Word: quota
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...pitfalls of affirmative action in admissions has been the use of a quota system by which lesser-qualified minority applicants are allotted a certain number of places in a class...
...stop representing affirmative action as some quota filling policy created in a social vacuum and recognize the more fundamental statement it makes, that discrimination won't be tolerated in passive or active forms, and that only a conscientious and rigorous effort will be successful in curtailing such bias...
Proportional representation allows citizens to rank their choice of candidates in order of preference. Once a candidate meets a quota of "number one" votes, his or her excess votes are transferred towards the next numbered candidate...
Cambridge's proportional voting system takes votes from candidates who have exceeded the quota and transfers them to the next preferred candidate on the ballot...
...votes in excess of the 1,884-vote quota will be transferred...