Thanks to Ronald for pointing this story out in class and for sending me the link to it. A town in New York is using cumulative voting in its elections, which allows people to distribute their votes as they wish.
Instead of having, for example, one vote in each of six separate city council races, voters have six total votes and if they want to put them all behind one candidate, they can. They give up the chance to vote in the other races, but they are able to vote with intensity. A normal up or down vote does not allow this.
