Content Categorized with "Cumulative Voting"
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Montgomery County Council Elections Need Reform
- Posted: October 25, 2005
- Categories: Fair Voting/Proportional Representation, Cumulative Voting, FairVote
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Finding Solutions to Louisiana's<br />Post-Katrina Election Problems
- Posted: October 17, 2005
- Categories: Fair Voting/Proportional Representation, Cumulative Voting, FairVote
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MSNBC Animates Rob Richie
- Posted: October 3, 2005
- Categories: Fair Voting/Proportional Representation, Cumulative Voting, FairVote
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GM shareholders nearly adopt proportional voting system
- Posted: June 17, 2005
- Categories: Cumulative Voting, FairVote
On June 7, the shareholders of one of the world’s largest corporations, General Motors, nearly voted to adopt proportional voting for future elections for the Board of Directors. Almost 49% of shareholders supported cumulative voting over the current winner-take-all system. The proposal for cumulative voting won the highest percentage of the vote of any non-board-recommended measure in GM history.
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GM shareholders nearly adopt proportional voting system
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Illinois Bill Calls for the Return of Cumulative Voting for State Legislature
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Lost Votes in Vermont State Senate Elections
- Posted: September 1, 2001
- Author(s): Terry Bouricius
- Categories: Cumulative Voting, All Reports
The partisan makeup of the Vermont legislature is not in line with the partisan vote for state officers. Democrats are under-represented in both the House and Senate.
An analysis of withheld votes in the State Senate races in 2000, 1998, and 1996 reveals that the primary cause of this disproportionality is the tendency of Democratic voters to bullet vote, giving up some of their votes, and possibly splitting their ticket, at a far higher rate than Republican voters. We calculate that partial franchise bullet voting on average results in Vermont voters withholding over 14% of the votes they are entitled to cast in State Senate races.