Word: quota
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...complicated formula is used to determine a quota (usually about 10 percent of the vote). Candidates who receive that number of votes or more are declared officially elected...
Elections in Cambridge are conducted under a unique proportional representation system, which allows citizens to rank their choice of candidates, and then redistributes votes to the next candidate marked on the ballot once candidates reach a quota of approximately 10 percent of the ballots cast...
Some 22,000 people went to the polls in 1993. If a similar number vote this year, candidates would need a quota of about 2,200 votes to be assured of election, according to Gintell...
...years about the crooked cops. Day and his neighbors never complained, he says, because they felt there was no one they could trust. "Cops lock you up, beat you up and then dump you off at the hospital," he says. "They just lock you up to make their quota...
...wait a minute. Is this story inspiring? Or dismaying? For what McCarty is practicing, after all, is reverse discrimination, sometimes even called reverse racism. Indeed, McCarty has even set up a quota--a 100% quota. No whites need apply for one of her scholarships. It is closed to them because of the color of their skin. Is this not the very thing that all the Republican presidential candidates, and sundry moral scolds upholding the alleged "true meaning" of civil rights, have been clamoring to denounce? Where is Pete Wilson while this woman proposes to travesty the principles of racial equality...