cumulative voting
MULTIPLE-WINNER VOTING METHOD INTENDED TO PROMOTE MORE PROPORTIONAL REPRESENTATION THAN WINNER-TAKE-ALL ELECTIONS
Accumulative voting; Allocation voting; Cumulative Voting; Multi-voting; Cumulative vote
n. in corporations, a system of voting by shareholders for directors in which the shareholder can multiply his voting shares by the number of candidates and vote them all for one person for director. This is intended to give minority shareholders a chance to elect at least one director whom they favor. For example, there are five directors to be elected, and 10,000 shares issued, a shareholder with 1,000 shares could vote 5,000 for his candidate rather than being limited to 1,000 for each of five candidates, always outvoted by shareholders with 1,001 or more shares.