Word: voting
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Students turned out to vote in record numbers, and across the city 26,891 residents, 51 per cent of all registered voters, cast ballots, up 6 per cent from two years...
...There are more tenants than landlords--if they all turn out to vote, we should do well;" one pro-rent control candidate predicted before the election...
Election commissioner Sandra Scheir described student voting as "awfully good." In precinct 6-3, where freshmen and most River House residents vote, turnout increased more than 50 per cent over two years ago. High turnout there could aid council challenger David Sullivan, who was endorsed by several student groups. Returns from Ward 6, Precinct 4, where Mather, Dunster and the Leverett House Towers vote, were unavailable...
...Vote-counting will take place in the gym of the Longfellow Elementary School. Workers count the votes by hand under Cambridge's complicated proportional representation system...
White, who garnered 55 per cent of the vote to Timilty's 45 per cent, told cheering supports. "This is the first time in 12 years that this city has not been divided...