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...Under the UC’s system, known as instant-runoff voting, students rank their preferred candidates instead of voting for a single one. If no ticket wins a majority of the first-place votes, the candidates with the least votes are eliminated and their votes redistributed until a victor is ultimately chosen...
...Voters should also not be afraid that listing a second choice will affect their first-choice ticket’s chances of winning: their second-place vote will only influence the vote count if their first-choice ticket has already been eliminated...
...ballots were cast, representing 55% of the student body » 47% of ballots were cast within the first 24 hours of voting . » Voters ranked an average of 3.54 tickets on their ballot, out of 6 eligible tickets. » The winning candidate (Petersen-Sundquist) had just 37% (1,314/3,519) of first-place votes, but achieved 54% (1710/3139) of the final redistributed votes under the instant-runoff system » 3 voters ranked “no candidate” as their first choice and a real candidate as their second choice. » Petersen-Sundquist’s campaign Facebook group...
...Halfway through the campaign, [presidential hopeful] Tom [D. Hadfield ’08] was going so crazy not being able to check his e-mail,” says Mark A. Shepard ’08, the chief of staff for the Hadfield-Goldenberg ticket. “He set up a meeting where he was going to check his e-mail for five minutes in the Science Center...
...Both the Petersen-Sundquist ticket and the Hadfield-Goldenberg ticket relied on “House captains” and “Yard captains” to ensure that every corner of Harvard’s campus heard their respective messages, and that these messages had to be consistent...