Word: voting
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Sullivan ran a distant second to Wolf in yesterday's count with 2553 votes--certainly enough to gain him a seat, but quite a ways from the mid-1960s, when a Sullivan vote of more than 4000 was the norm...
...held a majority on the council since 1973. Since that time, power has been split evenly between the good government group and a group of four conservative Independents, with liberal Independent Alfred E. Vellucci providing th swing vote...
...mood of city liberals reached its peakshortly before 5 p.m., when Election CommissionerSondra Scheir read, in alphabetical order, thefirst choice vote totals with three quarters ofthe votes counted. On reaching Wolf's name at thebottom of the list, Scheir paused for about 10seconds...
...room filled with an almost audible silencewaiting for Scheir to finish her sentence, andbroke into applause when she announced that Wolf'scumulative vote had reached...
...voters in the City of Cambridge havechanged," said Walter Sullivan, reached at homeafter the count. "It was a vote to offset rentcontrol, and that's what...