Document Type

Article

Publication Title

University of Chicago Legal Forum

Abstract

The purpose of this Article is to provide detailed quantitative and qualitative information, from one of the longest running experiments with cumulative voting in the United States, on the experience of cumulative voting in actual practice. In Chilton County, Alabama, cumulative voting has been in use since 1988 to elect members of the County's principal political bodies, the County Commission and the Board of Education. The academic literature is now filled with abstract arguments about the comparative merits and disadvantages of different voting systems, particularly the choice between territorial districts and alternative voting systems. Rather than continuing this abstract debate, it seems more valuable to assess these theoretical positions pragmatically, by exploring the actual record of alternative voting in practice.

First Page

241

Volume

1995

Publication Date

1995

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