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There are eight independent candidates, including three incumbents, in the running. Veterans Joseph E. Maynard and Donald A. Fantini joined with Mayor Thomas Danehy last term to form the conservative bloc, voting against the CCA members on issues like school reorganization. Maynard watches out for vocational education, and Fantini protects bilingual programs while forcing the council to spend carefully. The third incumbent, David J. Holway, has provided the swing vote between independent and convention blocs, and calls himself the "boat person" of Cambridge politics...
Under Cambridge's proportional representation system, picking a candidate for first-choice designation is crucial. Several responsible student groups are recommending students support David Sullivan's candidacy with their number-one vote. We urge all students registered in Cambridge to vote tomorrow...
...most cities, you vote and then go home and listen to the returns on the radio. Not in Cambridge, where it takes at least a week to count all the ballots and figure...
...most elections all you need to know to vote is how to pull a lever or scratch an X. Not so in Cambridge, where ability to count is required, and a master's degree in logic encouraged...
...first rule to 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...