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...farmer uses his own money, or borrows it at a low interest rate. Each year he signs a four-page contract that obligates him to turn a fixed amount of his produce over to the state; the amount is set low enough to enable the peasant to exceed his quota if conditions are normal. Anything he can produce above his quota he keeps for himself, sells to the state, or carries to one of the 37,000 free markets that have proliferated across China since they were made legal...
...issue was one of the hottest of the campaign. Sullivan, an Indpendent, said that the CTA should determine a minimum quota of minority teachers. Under her plan, only seniority would count as long as the schools maintained the quota...
Independent Walter Sullivan led the city in total votes for the 11th straight election, collecting 2933 votes to go 425 over the "quota" needed for election...
After any candidate who surpasses quotas is declared elected, the PR process begins to get complicated. Let's assume that this year, Walter Sullivan gets 200 more votes than the quota. A random sample of 200 of his supporting ballots are then extracted from his pile of ballots, and sorted according to the number two vote on each one. Any of the surplus ballots that are not marked with a second choice are discarded...
After all of the surplus votes from the candidates who reach quota are transferred to the second choice candidates, the election commissioners begin to work from the bottom up. The weakest candidates are declared official losers, and their supporting ballots are redistributed according to the second choice on each of these ballots...