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...allows citizens to rank their choice of candidates, and then redistributes votes when candidates reach a "quota" of approximately 10 percent of the votes cast, Scheir says...
Wednesday morning, while the candidates are resting up after a strenuous election day, Election Commissioner Sondra Scheir and a staff of 90 election officials will begin to count the ballots in a manner that distinguishes Cambridge from every other city in the country...
...Scheir says a form of balloting known as "proportional representation" (PR) was enacted at that time to ensure representation for smaller political interest groups...
Indeed, most objections to PR are made on the grounds that the lengthy tabulation of the vote tends to delay election results. Scheir says results from Cambridge elections will not be "official" until the end of the day on Friday, while School Committee results may not be available until the end of the next week...
...prevent problems, Commissioner Sondra Scheir suggested limiting worker restroom use to the lunch and dinner hours...