Tuesday is an election for Cambridge City Council, and boy am I excited! Cambridge uses a proportional representation system for municipal elections, which is absolutely thrilling: Proportional Representation (PR) is the method by which voters in Cambridge elect members of the City Council and School Committee. It ensures minority representation with majority control. Any group of voters that number more than one-tenth of the total population can be sure of electing at least one member of a nine-member Council, but a majority group of voters can be sure of electing a majority of the Council. In a PR election you may vote for as many of the candidates listed on the ballot as you wish, but you must rank the candidates in order of preference. I know local issues arent as exciting as national ones, but go vote! Unless the relevant election uses some silly plurality system (like most of them), then your vote doesnt matter.
Posted on: Sat, 02 Nov 2013 16:47:48 +0000
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