Guest commentary: Why do we use proportional representation to vote in Cambridge? (Cambridge Chronicle & Cambridge Tab)

9 March 2010, 6:22 am

An important role of our election commissioners is to help educate our Cambridge electorate, especially new voters, about our use of the “Proportional Representation” (PR) electoral system. As I began to prepare myself for this position, I realized that while I understood how PR works and have used it for the almost 25 years that I have lived in Cambridge, I wasn’t fully informed about the why ...... Read More »

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