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Reeves, Councillor Francis H. Duehay '55 and Councillor Anthony D. Galluccio each are assured a seat on the council, as the candidates exceeded a "quota" of 1,884 votes...
Cambridge's proportional voting system takes votes from candidates who have exceeded the quota and transfers them to the next preferred candidate on the ballot...
Proportional representation allows citizens to rank their choice of candidates, and then redistributes votes when candidates reach a quota of approximately 10 percent of the votes cast. Votes are then transferred to the next preferred candidate on the ballot...
Those who "meet quota," are declared elected, and their surplus votes are redistributed to the voter's next choice. Beginning Saturday morning, candidates with less than 50 votes are eliminated from the field and their ballots redistributed. The process continues until all nine city council seats are filled. Counting proceeds despite the Veteran's Day Holiday and may conclude as late as the Monday or Tuesday following the election...
McSweeney says he objects to the process which distributes votes among remaining candidates after others have met their quota. Although McSweeney finished in tenth place in his 1993 council bid, he was not appointed to fill the vacancy created by Walsh's removal from the council because more transfer votes went to Galluccio during the recount...