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Election officials estimated the "quota" of votes needed for election at 2698, meaning that 850 of Wolf's votes will be transferred to candidates who were lower choices on her first-place ballots...
...first time since his election to the council in 1959, Councillor Walter J. Sullivan failed to meet the quota on the first round...
These results are unofficial. Candidates areelected to the nine-member council once they reachthe quota, which election officials estimated at2698 votes. In Cambridge's complicated system ofproportional representation, votes are transferredto lower-choice candidates after the first choicesmeet the quota or are dropped from the count forhaving gotten the fewest votes...
...what about the Pacific Division? Why doesn't it get its fair quota of expansion teams to beat up on? Well, when you've got teams like Sacramento and the Los Angeles Clippers in your division, you don't deserve any more patsies to kick around...
...Still says a neighborhood campaign may beas likely as a citywide one to put a candidateover the quota...