Port Chester, New York, has been using cumulative voting for its village trustee elections for some time. On October 10, the voters voted to keep using the system. The vote was 746-429. Thanks to Rick Hasen for this news. See this story.
Ballot Access News
Edited By Richard Winger
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cumulative_voting
One more primitive partial method.
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Basic PR (for Algebra I fans) —
Party Members = Party Votes x Total Members / Total Votes
= Party Votes/ RATIO
IE — 1 Party Member for each RATIO of Party Votes.
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Stay tuned for the TV talking head MORONS on 6 Nov 2018 election night
— very highly likely to have ZERO mention of ***Party Votes***
— only the standard number of gerrymander gangster winners of each party hack gang
— with ZERO mention of DARK AGE ANTI-Democracy minority rule gerrymander math
— 1/2 or less votes x 1/2 gerrymander districts = 1/4 or less CONTROL = OLIGARCHY.
Port Chester was operating under a federal court order that apparently had an expiration date. The referendum was to place the method in the village charter. A no vote would have caused the plurality method in charter to be used, and likely invited additional litigation.