As sympathetic as I am to the policy and argument, I think cumulative voting rights suffer tremendously from being too difficult to explain easily. That’s not a reason to be against it (and I’m not) - but it does mean that informing the public about the proposal is incredibly difficult and time consuming. The question, ultimately, is do you have that kind of time with people who do not enjoy politics as much as we do? and if you do have that kind of time with them, do you want to spend it all on this issue?

It’s not easy to get that kind of time with voters (or to have enough of it to spend with individual voters), and as important as cumulative voting is, I’m not sure it’s the only issue I want to advocate. I’m not even sure, given its complexity, that if I were to advocate it to the exclusion of all other issues, that I could reach enough voters to make it a winning issue in DuPage right now.

It may be a different story once the Democrats are more organized in DuPage, and we can explain issues like cumulative voting to organizers in depth, and then have them spread the information to other Democrats plus independent and Republican voters, but we’re not at that point yet.