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...said Councillor Craig A. Kelley.Under the City’s single-vote-transfer proportional-representation system, each voter ranks nine candidates for the Council, including write-ins. Candidates who are ranked first on ten percent of ballots are declared elected. Any extra ballots they receive beyond the ten percent quota are redistributed to the candidates marked next in preference on those excess ballots.The count continues with the elimination of those candidates who received fewer than 50 first place rankings and the redistribution of their ballots to other candidates according to the next preference marked. After each, the candidate with lowest...
...Meanwhile, the people of Taiji, pop. circa 3,400, believe they have been unfairly singled out. While Taiji has a 400-year history of whale and dolphin hunting, its fishermen catch less than 20% of Japan's yearly dolphin quota. Iwate prefecture catches the most of any area, bringing in a total of 11,070 dolphins in 2006 and 10,218 in 2007. But even those figures are well below the prefecture's legal limits, and Taiji fishermen also hunted about half their limit in 2006 and 2007, averaging about 1,430 dolphins a year. In response to The Cove...
...OPEC's Bad Boys In theory, 11 of OPEC's 12 members are obligated to follow production quotas, including the sharp cuts voted on last December, which helped to double world oil prices within a few months (only Iraq is exempted, because of the war there). OPEC quotas are crucial to propping up world oil prices; without them, oil futures would currently trade at between $25 and $30 a bbl., according to Edward Morse, head of economic research at Lewis Capital Markets in New York. But in reality, some OPEC leaders simply ignore their quotas, because they need every penny...
...special election to take his brother’s former Massachusetts Senate seat in 1962 when he turned the minimum age of 30. Great Society reforms occupied much of the young Senator’s agenda. Kennedy helped pass the Immigration and Nationality Act of 1965, which ended the quota system favoring Europeans and opened the doors to immigration for millions of Asians, Africans, and Latin Americans...
...German citizenship, was featured on CDU campaign posters in the eastern state of Thuringia, which is holding a regional election on Aug. 30. The posters went up on Aug. 1; 10 days later, the NPD attacked Schall on its website, calling him a "n_____ for the CDU party quota," telling him to "go back home to Angola" and urging its members to deliver the message to him personally. In an act that had tones of a modern-day lynching, NPD supporters tried to march to Schall's house in the central town of Hildburghausen, but they were stopped by police...