Voting and Representation Systems in Agricultural Cooperatives

摘要

This report documents the extent of use of one-member, one-vote and proportional211u001evoting systems in the U.S. by type and function, and membership size for direct-211u001emembership, federated, and mixed membership cooperatives. It also documents the 211u001eextent of use of at-large, geographic districting, and delegate systems, as well 211u001eas combinations of at-large with districting and delegate systems by type and 211u001efunction and by region. The report finds one-member, one-vote, and at-large 211u001esystems predominate.