Word: transferring
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Under Cambridge's system of proportional representation, votes in excess of the quota are transferred to lower choices on the ballot. Duehay's election was announced at 10:55 p.m., after election officials began to transfer Wolf's 868 surplus ballots...
...went on to describe the way military technology developed with billions of dollars of American aid had been transferred to South Africa by Israel and that "when the U.S. protested the technology transfer to South Africa, it was told to mind its own business...
When votes are counted, candidates with more than a specific quota are declared elected. Election officials then look at the candidate's "surplus"--the number of votes in excess of the quota--and "transfer" them to the next choice...
...above the quota, election officials transfer the votes of those candidates with the lowest number. This process repeats itself until the proper number of candidates is elected...
...Relax technology-transfer regulations to allow sales of such items as personal computers and communications equipment that could spur autonomy...