Word: samp
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...strategy did not fail "because there was no real commitment to Cambridge on the part of the young voters..." This conclusion appears to be derived largely from a superficial analysis of the election-night returns by Election Commissioner Edward J. Samp. Jr., whose decade-long obstruction of the voting rights of Cambridge students hardly qualifies him as an impartial observer. In fact, well over 1,000 non-native students registered in Cambridge during 1975. Turnout in Ward 6, Precinct 3, a majority of whose voters is composed of Harvard undergraduates, jumped 150 over 1973, one of the largest increases...
...Election Commissioner Edward J. Samp Jr. said earlier this week, the students just didn't turn out. In the Harvard Square area, where nearly 500 new voters were added to the rolls, there was very little increase in voter turnout from the last municipal election. While nearly 60 per cent of all registered voters showed up at the polls, very few of the newly registered ones did. The strategy seems to have failed because there was no real commitment to Cambridge on the part of the young voters and because there was no Cambridge Convention '75 follow...
...Samp added, however, that a breakdown by district reveals that although many Harvard Students registered to vote few showed up at the polls yesterday...
...tomorrow evening the commission will have the results of an informal count of the ballots in the City Council race. "We should have a pretty good idea who's going to be elected then," Samp said...
Approximately 28,000 people voted in the election, Edward J. Samp Jr., a Cambridge election commissioner, said last night--about 2000 more than turned out for the 1973 municipal election...