Texas Education Code - Section 11.054. Electing Trustees By Cumulative Voting
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§ 11.054. ELECTING TRUSTEES BY CUMULATIVE VOTING. (a)
The board of trustees of an independent school district that elects
its trustees at large or at large by position may order that
elections for trustees be held using the cumulative voting
procedure described by this section.
(b) At an election at which more than one trustee position
is to be filled, all of the positions that are to be filled at the
election shall be voted on as one race by all the voters of the
school district. Each voter is entitled to cast a number of votes
equal to the number of positions to be filled at the election.
(c) A voter may cast one or more of the specified number of
votes for any one or more candidates in any combination. Only whole
votes may be cast and counted.
(d) If a voter casts more than the number of votes to which
the voter is entitled in the election, none of the voter's votes may
be counted in that election. If a voter casts fewer votes than
entitled, all of the voter's votes are counted in that election.
(e) The candidates who are elected are those, in the number
to be elected, receiving the highest numbers of votes.
(f) If the board of trustees adopts an order requiring the
use of cumulative voting, only the trustee positions that were
scheduled to be elected at the election are filled through the use
of cumulative voting.
(g) An independent school district that adopts an order
requiring the use of cumulative voting may not elect its members by
position as provided by Section 11.058.
Added by Acts 1995, 74th Leg., ch. 260, § 1, eff. May 30, 1995.
Section: 11.001 11.002 11.003 11.011 11.051 11.052 11.053 11.054 11.055 11.056 11.057 11.058 11.0581 11.059 11.060
Last modified: August 10, 2007
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