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...debate within the Reagan Administration as the 20-year-old Executive Order requiring companies doing business with the Government to hire more women and minority employees. Attorney General Edwin Meese has long contended that the numerical hiring goals established in response to Executive Order No. 11246 create a racial quota system and a form of "reverse discrimination" against white men. Labor Secretary William Brock and others who support the order have sought to stymie the Attorney General's persistent efforts to dismantle affirmative action and make it voluntary...
Clearly, the primary goal of a political hopeful is getting as many 1 votes as possible, since the candidate is automatically elected when he or she reaches quota (10 percent of the total vote plus...
...candidates do not often reach this quota in the first round. Although four candidates in the last election did get enough votes to be elected in the first round, in 1981 only one was so lucky...
After the distribution of 1 votes, candidates' surplus votes are distributed to the second choice on particular ballots. For example, if Alice Wolf's quota is 3000 votes, and she receives 3500, 500 random ballots are pulled from her stack. Then, each ballot is placed in the pile of its 2 candidate...
Cambridge politicos have varied ideas on whether or not a slate affiliation helps or hurts a candidate. Lesser known slate candidates who do not make quota in the first round pull transfer votes from their more experienced associates...