Word: randomized
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...report questioned whether names were placed on the ballot in random order, or in an order calculated to help the candidates whose names were on top. It also criticized as an "error in judgement" the use of candidates as poll watchers...
...candidate with the most number-ones is seated first. Then, the commissioners take away ballots from this person's pile, picking them at random, until only a "quota" is left to the newly elected councilor's credit...
...College officials say that it is unlikelythat major changes will be instituted any timesoon. Both the house masters and students widelydisagree whether random assignment should be used,and when the College tried such a system in theearly 1960s, it proved to be very unpopular...
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