EAC - Voluntary Voting System Guidelines

Name : | David Mertz, et al.
Organization : | N/A
Post Date : | 9/27/2005
Glossary Comments
Glossary Term : | Cumulative Voting
Definition : |
Comment : | Practice where voters are permitted to cast multiple votes distributed among multiple candidates. Voters are not limited to giving exactly one vote to each candidate. Instead, voters may cast multiple votes on one or more candidates, limited by the total votes they are assigned. Explanation: While the most common cumulative method may give voters a number of votes equal to the number of candidates, such a relationship is not defining of cumulative voting. A particular system within the definition might give voters exactly 10 votes to distribute, or 1/2 the number of the candidates, or 2x the number of candidates, etc.