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...This strategy of scaling back to prevent mistakes “would have been great for my campaign,” Voith says. He adds that trouncing a team experienced with UC campaign strategy would be “very difficult...

Author: By Charles J. Wells, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: The Year of the Underdog? | 11/30/2007 | See Source »

...There’s a lot of disenchantment with how the UC has been run. Matt Sundquist has played a large role [in that],” Willey says. “With everything that’s gone wrong in the last year, I think they are more vulnerable than past establishment tickets...

Author: By Charles J. Wells, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: The Year of the Underdog? | 11/30/2007 | See Source »

Unlike most American elections, where the candidate who wins is simply the one with the most votes, the UC candidate with the most first-place votes does not automatically win the election...

Author: By Roger R. Lee, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Voting System Can Be Fickle | 11/30/2007 | See Source »

Instead, the UC uses a system where voters are allowed to rank their preferred candidates instead of voting for a single one—a system that many experts say better represents voters’ true preferences...

Author: By Roger R. Lee, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Voting System Can Be Fickle | 11/30/2007 | See Source »

...most jurisdictions, implementing an instant-runoff scheme is more expensive and time-consuming because it requires multiple simulated runoffs. This drawback is not a critical concern for the UC, however, as the adoption of electronic voting has made the council’s elections easy to administer...

Author: By Roger R. Lee, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Voting System Can Be Fickle | 11/30/2007 | See Source »

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