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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...remember is that you are really only voting for one city councilor and one school committee member. The extra rankings are essentially meaningless unless your number one choice does not need your vote to win or if he has no chance of victory. If that happens, your number two vote will automatically be counted. And if that vote is unnecessary or wasted, the number three vote will be used, and so on. No matter how many candidates you voted for, the ballot will only end up being counted for one of them...
Election workers begin by sorting the ballots by first choice vote. If any candidate receives over a certain quota of first choice votes (set by tradition at ten per cent of the total vote), he is automatically declared a winner. Two years ago, only one candidate, Walter Sullivan, managed this feat on the first round...
...candidate exceeds this quota, the extra ballots are redistributed to the piles of ballots for number two choices. If no one tops the quota figure, then the candidate with the lowest number of ballots is declared defeated and his ballots are redistributed, again to the second choice candidates. This process of eliminating the lowest candidate and redistributing his ballots is repeated until all positions are filled with candidates who have reached the quota mark or until eliminating another candidate would leave a vacancy on the nine-member council...
...been largely business as usual. The 40-year-old "progressive party" endorsed its slate in a well-attended summer convention. Many of the names were the same as two years ago, and the tactics are similar-city-wide mailings, printed slate cards which volunteers will hand to voters as they enter the polls, and a superb fundraising machine...
...mainly because their candidates are of a different breed. Instead of the team players on the CCA, they tend toward individual stardom--Walter Sullivan for example has a network of buddies and relatives built up since he broke into the major leagues more than two decades ago--he doesn't need the CHT card file to help his effort. It's a little hard to gauge the strength of the CHT campaign effort--the group as of Friday hadn't filed the campaign finance report due a week earlier. Group president Richard Fraiman says the final tally will be somewhere...