Editing Cumulative voting (section)

== Use ==
<!-- insert common usage in local government here -->The [[Norfolk Island Legislative Assembly]] on [[Norfolk Island]] was elected using a form of cumulative voting where voters cannot give all their votes to one candidate. It is also used heavily in [[corporate governance]], where it is mandated by seven U.S. states, and it was used to elect the [[Illinois]] House of Representatives from 1870 until 1980.<ref name=ill1 /><ref name=ill2 /> It was used in England between 1870 and 1902, under the [[Elementary Education Act 1870]], to elect school boards. Starting in the late 1980s, it has been adopted in a growing number of jurisdictions in the United States. Generally, this has been in an attempt to resolve lawsuits brought against bloc voting methods.<ref>{{cite web|title=FairVote - Cumulative Voting|url=http://archive.fairvote.org/?page=226|website=FairVote|access-date=17 May 2015}}</ref>

With strategic voting, one can calculate how many shares are needed to elect a certain number of candidates, and to determine how many candidates a person holding a certain number of shares can elect.

Some [[Bugzilla]] installations allow the use of cumulative voting to decide which [[software bug]]s most urgently need correcting.<ref>{{cite web|title=3.13. Voting|url=https://www.bugzilla.org/docs/4.4/en/html/voting.html|website=Bugzilla|access-date=17 May 2015}}</ref>