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Roundtable: Election-night reporting likely, not poll changes
By Marc Levy
Published: March 29, 2011
With the city’s growth to 105,162 people, talk of changes to voting wards, districts and precincts arose at a City Council roundtable, as well as the problem of falsely “inactive” voters and better reporting of election night data.
Editorial: How to not elect a mayor
By admin
Published: February 27, 2010
Many times during the eight weeks it took to elect a mayor city councillors said some variation of “This is our system. The system works.” They weren’t saying that at the end of the process, and for good reason.
Votes Monday are for mayoral process, not for mayor
By Marc Levy
Published: February 8, 2010
Despite much talk Monday about electing a mayor, the City Council took no vote — there was tacit agreement not to hold one while councillor Tim Toomey was away — and wound up only incrementally further along on addressing the issue: awaiting a report from the city solicitor and prepared to hold additional meetings, and votes, if the situation isn’t soon resolved.
Mayoral votes fail as council notes new leader for police board
By Marc Levy
Published: February 1, 2010
The council’s fourth and fifth mayoral ballots failed Monday, leaving the city without a permanent mayor into the second month of its term. Henrietta Davis picked up a vote, and Ken Reeves lost one.
Editorial: Keeping proportional representation is smart thing to do
By admin
Published: January 18, 2010
Every four years there is a call to abolish the U.S. electoral college. In Cambridge, elections incite calls to end proportional representation — our rare form of voting in which candidates are ranked instead of just chosen or rejected. Let’s not.
Still no mayor, and no reconsideration for Housing Authority appointments
By Marc Levy
Published: January 11, 2010
City councillors failed Monday to reach the five votes needed to elect a mayor, meaning — with Martin Luther King Jr. Day coming in a week — the city will be without one for at least two weeks. The delay has precedents and is nowhere near a record set in the 1940s.
Council names the problem: Designating honors without a policy
By Marc Levy
Published: November 17, 2009
A proposal to name part of the new Main Library after the late storyteller Brother Blue prodded the City Council into voting Monday to explore its habit — some would say compulsion — of honoring residents by naming things after them.
Vote count ends, with challenger Cheung victorious
By Marc Levy
Published: November 5, 2009
Leland Cheung, a 31-year-old graduate student, has been preliminarily elected to Cambridge’s City Council, pushing incumbent Larry Ward off the panel.
New prediction: Election count ends this evening
By Marc Levy
Published: November 5, 2009
The count of auxiliary ballots goes on at the Central Square Senior Center, with the determination of winners in City Council and School Committee races likely, but not certain, by the end of the day
Vote count hours are extended, but won’t finish tonight
By Marc Levy
Published: November 4, 2009
The Election Commission will be counting auxiliary ballots — write-ins and other wild cards keeping election results from being settled — until 7 tonight, a two-hour extension from the official schedule. The races won’t be decided until tomorrow at the earliest, though.