Word: sullivans
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Incumbents Alfred E. Vellucci. Thomas W. Denehy, and Edward A. Crane '35 each received more than 150 votes in the redistribution of Walter J. Sullivan's surplus...
...Sullivan is the only city councillor thus far officially elected; he attained the necessary quota of 2499 votes from his "number one" ballots. After yesterday's redistribution of Sullivan's 1100 vote surplus to the "number two" candidates marked on each of the 1100 ballots, Vellucci, Danehy, and Crane now need only 78 votes, 152 votes, and 254 votes respectively to meet the quota...
...next step of the count, the 1250 surplus Sullivan votes will be redistributed by taking every third Sullivan vote from the envelopes in which they are kept, by precinct, after the first count, Each of the 1250 votes is then put into the pile of whatever candidate is marked "number two" on the ballot...
This year, about 25,000 voted in the City Council election, making the quota approximately 2500. As he almost always does, Walter J. Sullivan ran highest; he was the only candidate to make the quota from his "number ones." As an example, say Sullivan got a hypothetical total of 3750 "number ones" (slightly higher than his actual count). Thus, he is 1250 over the quota...
Judge Robert Sullivan of the Middlesex County Superior Court will begin hearing appeals Monday in groups of hearing appeals Monday from protestors in groups of 20 convicted of criminal trespass in Cambridge District Court last spring...