Word: ranked
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...personal contact with voters is the most important part of local elections, Wolf says, because the city's proportional representation (PR) election system forces candidates to base their campaigns largely on popular appeal and neighborhood support. In PR elections, voters rank all of the candidates in order of preference--one, two, three...
...Hare system of proportional representation, which allows voters to pick as many candidates as they wish and rank their preferences, has led candidates to seek any sort of name recognition in the hopes that
Under Cambridge's antiquated system of proportional balloting, voters rank candidates in order of preference--one, two, three and so on. As a candidate reaches quota and is declared elected, his surplus votes are transferred to the candidate ranked second on the ballot. Then, the candidate with the fewest votes is eliminated in successive rounds and his ballots are similarly redistributed. This process continues until all the seats are filled...
There is one interesting point about the CRR rulings which should not be lost on the rank and file members of the South African Solidarity Council.(sic) Leaders of SASC, such as Evan Grossman and Damon Silvers, broke the declared boycott of the CRR, testified before the committee and got off scot free for their actions at Lowell House. At the same time regular SASC members who honored the boycott were given suspended requirements to withdraw...
Under Cambridge's system of proportional representation where voters rank candidates by preference, name recognition and neighborhood support are considered important factors in gaining number one votes...