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MADAGASCAR Recount Agreed Four months after a presidential election led to at least 35 deaths in violent demonstrations, Madagascar looked to be on the verge of an outcome. The two candidates, incumbent Didier Ratsiraka and self-declared President Marc Ravalomanana, agreed to a recount of the votes, and, if that produces no clear victor, to a new ballot under international supervision. In the election Ratsiraka apparently won 42% of the vote to Ravalomanana's 46%, but the Supreme Court annulled the result last week...
Over 100 people stood in a candlelit circle outside Memorial Church last night to recount traumatic tales of rape and sexual violence...
Until recently, only circumstantial evidence of the flawed voting scheme was apparent—a system must be wrong if it allows the continued election of Cambridge City Counselor Kenneth E. Reeves ’72. With the recent recount of the Cambridge School Committee election, however, it has become clear that Cambridge’s voting system could have been invented by Stalin himself. In a close election like the recent one, the winners can be determined by the order in which the ballots are counted. If the top ballot were put at the bottom of the pile, theoretically...
When the election commission held a public hearing earlier this month on the recount, Owades and others submitted recommendations for modernizing the vote counting system...
That method would “take the randomness of the order out,” said school committee member Richard Harding Jr., one of the candidates to contest the November election and prevail in the recount...