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...Voters rank their choices, and when a candidate gets enough top votes to achieve “quota”—10 percent of the vote—the rest of their ballots are credited to the next candidate on the ballot...

Author: By Jonathan P. Abel, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Council Hopeful Waits, Waves at Traffic | 11/4/2003 | See Source »

...order to make “quota” and win a council seat under Cambridge’s proportional representation voting system—a system in which voters rank their top nine choices—a candidate typically must receive about 1,700 votes...

Author: By Michael M. Grynbaum, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: DeBergalis Runs for City Council on Student Platform | 11/3/2003 | See Source »

...group, affiliates of Harvard University rank as the fourth biggest block of all-time contributors to Kerry’s political campaigns, according to opensecrets.com...

Author: By Jessica E. Vascellaro, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Candidates Ally With Faculty Fundraisers | 10/29/2003 | See Source »

...knowing very well that the issues I worked on day to day did not rank very high with the candidate,” Briggs says...

Author: By Jessica E. Vascellaro, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Candidates Ally With Faculty Fundraisers | 10/29/2003 | See Source »

...prestige, leadership and pioneering research, however, the faculty are selected through a process that remains uncharacteristically substandard. Tenure for the Faculty of Arts and Sciences (FAS) is currently determined by Ad Hoc committees that base their decision in part on blind letters which ask professors in a field to rank a list of potential candidates—without specifying who is under serious consideration...

Author: By The CRIMSON Staff, | Title: Tinkering With Tenure | 10/28/2003 | See Source »

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