Did you participate in the elections? And what kind?President, municipal? Then with the concept of "cumulative voting", most likely, you did not encounter. The point is that the concept is special. This type of voting is used in special cases. Let's consider them at least for the purpose of raising the educational level.
Cumulative voting is a kind of meetingopinions, when it is necessary to choose not one person, but the whole group. Usually this way is formed by the council or other representative body of all sorts of societies. What is meant?
Imagine
The meeting we are considering wants to havecommittee of "their" representatives - those who will lobby its interests. In this case, the goal of each person or group is precisely this. Pull into the "committee" of its lobby. That's where the cumulative vote was invented. It allows you to give a certain person (group) as many votes as her positions.
Imagine that our group of people is not homogeneous. It consists of those who can influence the process to some extent. One has 10 percent, another has 15, and so on.
Cumulative voting allowseach member of the community according to his "representative weight" of the number of votes. That is, one will have ten, another - fifteen votes, and so on. How will they take advantage of this? It is clear that everyone - in their own interests. But that is not all. Everyone speaks out about the candidates. Then the process of counting will begin. Since the number of votes of each is multiplied by the number of seats, a complex scheme is obtained. The winner is necessarily the one who has the greatest "weight" in the community in question.
Understanding what a cumulative vote is,you need to understand: the process is built in such a way as to balance the chances of the influence of all players. It is applied only in the case when a group body is elected. Thus, it turns out that the voter can choose how to dispose of his "influence". He can vote for one candidate or divide between all (certain). It turns out that cumulative voting is a process of multifaceted influence on the process. Any player chooses how to use his influence: to strengthen one person or to be sprayed for several persons. It is believed that this method more fairly takes into account the interests of all participants in the vote.
Such an intricate method was invented forspecial cases. Namely: it is used when electing the Board of Directors of JSC. This is enshrined in legislation. There is a document regulating how the process itself is conducted, by what principle the counting is carried out, and so on, up to the form of the bulletin. This is done to equalize the rights of shareholders, to make the voting more open and fair. Each newsletter is a document that contains the details of the organization and is signed by the manager. In addition, it provides an opportunity to make your choice in two ways: by a separate or general vote. I must say that the voter has the right to refuse all applicants. Usually the procedure is prescribed in the statutory documents of the company. Each shareholder is aware of his rights and opportunities. This does not preclude the information of participants in the process before the procedure.
The voting procedure is secret.Shareholders fill out their ballots and put them in a special urn. Then the votes are counted. It should be borne in mind that if a shareholder voted "against", it means that he did not support anyone.
