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Chris S. Cullen ’07 and Techrosette Leng ’07 emerged as the winners in the hotly contested Currier House Committee (HoCo) co-chair election this Saturday. The arduous race witnessed three rounds of voting??two resulting in ties, and one canceled because of security flaws with the online voting system. With Leng garnering a clear victory in each of the votes, Cullen and Geoffrey D. Kearney ’07 remained in a dead heat until this final election, when Cullen’s total finally exceeded Kearney?...
True, the recent record of national third parties has been less than impressive. Local campaigns in some states, however, have yielded success stories, and we should welcome their methods in Massachusetts. A combination of instant runoff voting and “fusion” voting??which is soon set to come before the state legislature here—could ultimately make ours a much more vibrant democracy...
...aside, the consistent and widespread downplaying of Grumet-Morris’ performance this season is mind boggling. That’s not to say, of course, that Tarkki, Northeastern’s Keni Gibson, Bowling Green’s Jordan Sigalet—curently trailing only Tarkki in fan voting??and a host of other goaltenders from around the country aren’t having fine seasons. Many of them are, of course, as is the case each year. But a cursory glance at the GAA and save percentage figures is enough to show that Grumet-Morris...
...instant runoff election—so-called because the majority winner is determined from a single round of voting??the candidate with the fewest first-choice votes is eliminated from contention, and the voters who voted for this candidate have their second-choice votes awarded to remaining candidates. Successive eliminations and vote redistributions occur until there are only two candidates left, at which point one will have a majority of votes...
...none of those players has ever cracked the top five in voting??Gessner came the closest with a sixth-place finish...