Word: quota
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Sullivan is the only city councillor thus far officially elected; he attained the necessary quota of 2499 votes from his "number one" ballots. After yesterday's redistribution of Sullivan's 1100 vote surplus to the "number two" candidates marked on each of the 1100 ballots, Vellucci, Danehy, and Crane now need only 78 votes, 152 votes, and 254 votes respectively to meet the quota...
Under the system, each candidate must have a certain quota of votes in order to be elected. The quota is set by dividing the total number of votes cast by the number of seats to be filled plus one. Then, add one vote to the quotient and there's the quota. The idea behind sitting the quota at this level is to make it low enough for candidates supported by a minority group to get elected, and high enough to make the elections more than a matter of chance...
...allow too many abortions, their hospital will become known as an abortion clinic. So if they accept an unusually large number of cases one month, they are likely to cut the number drastically in the next, even though the cases are similar. Some hospitals have considered setting up a quota, so abortions would be done on a first-come, first-served basis...
...votes, respectively. The three are expected to have little trouble gaining the 3532 votes needed for election as the Election Commission goes through the complex process of eliminating low-ranking candidates, re-distributing their ballots to "number two" candidates, until six of the candidates have met the quota...
...Coates, a black former councillor, is running ninth with 1171 votes. If the firstround votes cast for the other two blacks-School Committeeman Gustave M. Solomons (819) and Henry F. Owen III (525-eventually go to Coates in the redistribution, he will just barely squeak in over the 2492 quota. If an appreciable number of the votes are scattered to white candidates. Coates probably won't make...