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After a four hour wait, the Cambridge Public School Committee election results were to be announced. The three candidates present, Patricia M. Nolan ’80, Alan R. Steinert, Jr. ’58. and Alice L. Turkel stood with the rest of the Cantabrigian present to hear the results...
...candidates were announced in order of decreasing vote count: Nancy Tauber, Richard N. Harding, Jr., Marc C. McGovern, Alfred B. Fantini, Nolan, Turkel, Joseph G. Grassi, Steinert, and Charles L. Stead, Sr.Of this list of nine, the first six are to seat the school committee for the next two years...
...fewest number one rankings is eliminated and the ballots in favor of this candidate are redistributed to the voter’s second choice. The process is repeated until six candidates remain. A final vote of 2135 is required in order to gain a seat in the school committee...
Current and former Cambridge School Committee members said they were surprised at Grassi’s elimination. “We always knew that one of us would lose—I just didn’t think Grassi would be one of them,” said Nolan...
Like many others present in the room, she was optimistic towards the possibility for change in the dynamics of the school committee. “I’m hoping that we’ll have a radical result, perhaps some new members,” said Alan Dobson, another Cambridge resident...