cumulative voting

American  

noun

1. a system that gives each voter as many votes as there are persons to be elected from one representative district, allowing the voter to accumulate them on one candidate or to distribute them.

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cumulative voting British  

noun

1. a system of voting in which each elector has as many votes as there are candidates in his constituency. Votes may all be cast for one candidate or distributed among several

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Etymology

Origin of cumulative voting

First recorded in 1850–55

Example Sentences

Fortunately, there’s a readily available solution to address this: Congress could also enact what’s known as cumulative voting.

From Slate

Cumulative voting could also help protect minority communities.

From Slate

And cumulative voting already exists at the county level.

From Slate

Penn Law Dean Emeritus Colin Diver, whose time as dean overlapped with Guinier’s time on the faculty, said she “pushed the envelope in many important and constructive ways: advocating for alternative voting methods, such as cumulative voting, questioning the implicit expectations of law school faculty that female students behave like ‘gentlemen,’ or proposing alternative methods for evaluating and selecting applicants to the Law School.”

From Seattle Times

She insisted that her positions had been taken out of context, and she noted that cumulative voting was already used in communities around the country.

From Seattle Times