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...Friday, the Election Commissioners began officially electing candidates to the council. Wolf and Sullivan, whose spots were guaranteed on the strength of their no. 1 votes alone, were elected to cheers from family and friends Friday evening. CCA Councillor Francis H. Duehay '55 received enough of Wolf's surplus votes to reach the quota that night...
After dinner, the city employees began distributing Wolf's surplus votes. Under Cambridge's unique system of proportional representation, any votes a candidate earns above the quota are redistributed to the second choices marked on the voters' ballots...
Duehay was formally elected at 10:45 p.m., after 357 of Wolf's surplus votes brought him to the quota...
Four commission employees sat at a table with Wolf's 1833 surplus ballots in front of them, picking them up one by one and shouting the names of the second-place candidates. Other employees then placed the ballots in the appropriate piles...
However, pundits are saying that with Wolf's surplus Cyr exhausted his transfer vote potential, and that Vellucci could inch pass him on the strength of Sullivan's transfers and surplus from the candidates who will not reach quota...