Word: ranks
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Under the Hare proportional representation system, voters rank the candidates. Candidates are elected if they meet a quota of votes, and their excess votes are transferred to the next-ranked candidate. Low candidates' votes are also redistributed in later rounds...
When Cantabrigians enter the voting booth today, they will be asked to rank their choices for the council. We believe there are several candidates who deserve your votes...
Because of Cambridge's proportional representation voting system, which allows voters to rank their candidates, incumbents are traditionally very hard to beat. In addition, this is an election year without an outstanding issue to draw voters to the polls and encourage them to search for new names and solutions...
When Cambridge voters enter the polling booths tomorrow, they will rank their choices for City Council and the School Committee. Thus, voters write #1 beside the name of their first choice candidate, #2 beside the name of their second choice...
Duke's approach has an enormous appeal -- despite an unsavory past that he now writes off as a "wrong attitude." A swastika-brandishing neo-Nazi in college, he joined the Knights of the Ku Klux Klan in high school and worked himself up to the exalted rank of grand wizard before leaving the organization in 1979. Soon after, he founded a white supremacist group called the National Association for the Advancement of White People. The divorced father of two teenage daughters, Duke held no regular job before his election to the state legislature. He has supported himself as a seller...