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...that January night, Maher commanded a slight lead with three votes??an insufficient number to secure the mayorship...
Cambridge’s candidates Flaherty, E. Denise Simmons, and Dennis A. Benzan garnered 46, 31, and 13 percent of the city’s votes, respectively. DiDomenico won 6 percent of Cambridge ballots—173 votes??and Michael J. Albano earned the remaining 3 percent. Less than 1 percent of the 2,921 votes cast by Cambridge Democrats went to the final candidate, Charlestown lawyer Daniel C. Hill...
Objections to third-party candidacies that rest on their tendency to “steal votes?? seem to invoke a cynical and underdeveloped view of democratic choice. Democracy is founded on the principle that citizens should choose governments for themselves from among the assorted options; with more options available for selection, therefore, citizens would have greater freedom and flexibility in choosing the leader they most desire. Instead of being restricted to one or two broadly comparable administrations, they would have the liberty to choose from an additional candidate who may be better suited to address their concerns...
Councillor Marjorie C. Decker, who called the process of electing a mayor "time consuming," said that the Boston Globe was unfair to report that Reeves—the former mayor of Cambridge who currently possesses only two votes??was impeding the progress of the election. Yesterday’s Globe article stated that some say Reeves is "holding up the process by not dropping out of the running...
...guidelines, when no candidates received the majority of first place votes, the ticket with the fewest votes was excluded from consideration, and the first place votes for that ticket were redistributed to the second-ranked candidates on those ballots. This process put Bowman-Hysen in the lead with 45 votes??the closest margin of victory in recent history—despite going into the first round with 31 fewer first place votes than Hayward-Zhang...