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...excess votes of winners and the first-choice votes recorded for the lowest candidates are then redistributed to each voter's next choice. The process continues until nine candidates make it over the quota and are elected...
...that point, the vote counters go back over the ballots and randomly remove all the "extra" votes from the candidates who exceeded the quota and gained election on the first round. These "extra" votes are then redistributed to the candidates marked "2" on those ballots. If nine winners don't emerge during that count, the counters go back and start using "3"s (and so on up to "9"s) until nine candidates have met the quota. That way, in theory at least, no one's vote is "wasted," and minorities do not have to throw all their weight behind...
...Vecchio said HSA has no set quota for hiring scholarship students, although, he said, they are given preference...
...said that before coming to Harvard, she had read about blacks being admitted on a quota system but didn't believe it because it was written by whites. Still, she was surprised to find blacks here as "hard-working and professionally oriented as they...
Marvin says whites think, "'If you're black and you're going to Harvard, you must really be good, and since we have to fill our affirmative action quota, we'll take you.' They'd rather have a black from Harvard or Yale than from Howard or Fisk...