Voting method explained

The Rotan Independent School District uses cumulative voting to elect school board members. 

With this method, each candidate gets as many votes as there are open seats. 

Rotan has a seven member school board. There are four seats available this election, with seven candidates running. 

Each candidate has their name on the ballot four times.

Voters can cast none, one, two, three, or four votes in this race, in any array: vote four times for one candidate; give two different candidates two votes; give two candidates one vote and one candidate two votes; vote one time for one candidate; etc.

The school has been using this method since 1995.