cumulative vote

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   an election in which each person has as many votes as there are positions to be filled and they can all be cast for one candidate or can be distributed in any manner

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Questions about cumulative vote

What does cumulative vote mean?

cumulative vote means "an election in which each person has as many votes as there are positions to be filled and they can all be cast for one candidate or can be distributed in any manner".

Is cumulative vote a common word?

cumulative vote is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.