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Preliminary results indicate that approximately one half of the city's 47,000 registered voters turned out yesterday to choose public officials and decide three referenda questions, election commissioners said after polls closed last night...
...final results of the city council race and referenda balloting will not be available until at least Saturday because of Cambridge's complicated system of proportional representation. Under this system, where voters rank candidates in order of preference, each paper ballot is sorted and counted by hand in a lengthy process that may last up to a week...
...binding referenda--one on Harvard's sale of houses to faculty members and the other banning nerve gas testing in Cambridge--were expected to pass with ease...
Although rain tapered off by the day's end, most candidates and referenda supporters were not deterred by the low turnout and the inclement weather...
While all but a few Cambridge voters polled were willing to volunteer their opinions on the three referenda, they were more reluctant to say who among the 22 City Council candidates would win their support...