Port Chester, New York, is using cumulative voting for the first time this year, for Village Trustee. Six at-large seats are to be filled. Voters are free to assign their six votes any way they please. They can give multiple votes to a single candidate if they wish. See this story. Thanks to Third Party and Independent Daily for the link.
Total Votes / Total Seats = REAL P.R.
Only ONE vote is needed for ONE candidate — who has a pre-election rank order list of the other candidates — to transfer surplus and loser votes.
It’s nice that they may have an election of any sort. The last two in 2007 and 2009 were cancelled, and most of the trustees are either serving past their elected term, or appointed to fill vacancies.
Illinois formerly used cumulative voting to elect the lower house of its legislature.
Each voter had three votes, which he could cast any way he wanted to: one vote to each of three candidates; two votes to one candidate and one vote to another; or all three votes to one candidate.
#3 I’ve read that Pat Quinn is the person responsible for it no longer existing.