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Along the way, however, the brotherhood has also been losing rank-and-file members -- 500,000 since the mid-1970s, 68,000 of those just since Carey's election. This membership dive, along with mismanagement by Carey's plundering predecessors, has wrecked the union's finances. The International lost $58 million in 1992. The union is still slow to reveal its books to its own executive board -- nearly six months passed before this year's first-quarter figures were available -- but an unaudited draft shows a $25 million bath for the first half of 1993. The total net worth...
Under proportional representation, citizens rank their choice of candidates. Whenever the candidate a ballot is counting for amasses a surplus of votes or fails to garner enough votes to qualify, ballots are transferred towards the next numbered candidate...
Proportional representation allows citizens to rank their choice of candidates. Initially, each person's vote is counted towards the first choice candidate on his or her ballot...
...known to have traveled through that beautiful, friendly part of the country, my first reaction to the Justice experience was to seek understanding. I thought about the state's exciting topography, its large gray squirrel population, its status as Ike Eisenhower's home state and its rank as one of the top birding sites in North America. I was baffled...
Proportional representation, the form of balloting used in Cambridge, 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. Which candidate a person's vote counts for under this system depends on the votes of other people...