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...this year, in his fight with Congress over the Civil Rights Act, George Bush again tried to stir racial fears. He continually--and incorrectly--called the Act a "quota bill" that would require employers to hire unqualified job applicants...
After dinner, the city employees began distributing Wolf's surplus votes. Under Cambridge's unique system of proportional representation, any votes a candidate earns above the quota are redistributed to the second choices marked on the voters' ballots...
...second candidate on the ballot has also reached the necessary quota, the votes go to the number three ballot choice. The votes of candidates who fail to reach the quota are redistributed in the same...
Duehay was formally elected at 10:45 p.m., after 357 of Wolf's surplus votes brought him to the quota...
However, pundits are saying that with Wolf's surplus Cyr exhausted his transfer vote potential, and that Vellucci could inch pass him on the strength of Sullivan's transfers and surplus from the candidates who will not reach quota...