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Senator Francis X. McCann (D-Cambridge), however, said Wednesday that PR violates the U.S. Supreme Court's "one man one vote" rule by forcing voters to make choices in order of preference. McCann said that under the PR system, the voter has only a fraction of one vote...
...Special voter-registration sessions for Cambridge residents, including Harvard students, will begin tomorrow in all 11 election wards and will continue until March...
WHATEVER strategies they follow, whatever the computers and the charts and the polls tell them, the candidates have to fall back, in the end, on their own instincts of what works with the voter. Speeches are one thing, but style is more crucial-intuitive and indefinable as it is. Each of the current crop of candidates is marked by a political cadence peculiarly his own. Brief profiles of the most notable contenders...
HENRY JACKSON. Stolid, square, unexciting but commonsensical, he is trying to appeal to the old-fashioned instincts of the average voter. But this campaign style has the drawback of not sufficiently dramatizing the candidate. Jackson can still walk down a main street in Florida without being recognized; his crowds tend to be attentive but small. When they see a billboard that urges "Vote for Scoop," some Floridians think it is an aerospace project. Hard as he is trying to make hay with the busing issue, Jackson is not succeeding very well because Wallace talks about the subject in a manner...
...week-long registration dirve recently completed in Rhode Island under the sponsorship of The Student Vote resulted in a 25 per cent increase in the number of 18- to 21-year-old voters there at a cost to that organization of only 11 cents per registrant. The Democratic National Committee had previously cited $2 per voter as the minimum figure possible...