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Because there were many viable candidates in this year's field, none received enough first-choice votes to reach the "quota" of 3215 required for election. Under the Hare system of proportional representation, candidates with the smallest vote totals are repeatedly retired from the race, and their ballots are redistributed to the remaining candidates according to voters' orders of preference...
This year incumbent Timothy J. Toomey Jr. won the most votes, raking in 3182 "number-ones," and passing the quota of 3215 votes needed to win after the third count, in which losing candidate Donna Brescia's votes were transferred...
...incumbents Frances H. Cooper and Larry Weinstein, who finished second and third respectively, also made a strong showing, and reached quota after the fifth count. Independent incumbent Alfred B. Fantini came in fourth to secure his fourth school committee term...
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...
...room and board, and a $100-a-week stipend in exchange for up to 45 hours of child care and light housework. Already, demand far exceeds supply. The two sponsoring groups have received 40,000 requests for information from U.S. families and are petitioning the Government for a larger quota of visas...