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This voting method is pretty much like what we had in Marion County, Indiana. They always had at least 1/5 of the state legislature, but they'd lumped it into one district. You'd vote for your 20 favorite candidates.

In variations on a theme European countries, ancient taxing authorities in Germany in various places AND American stockholder owned corporations vote this way.

For example, the company has a million shares. There's one vote per share. You want to spread your almost half ownership of 499,000 shares in such a way that you can more or less get your own people on the board. What you do is toss 4 votes to candidate 1, but 125,999 to each of 4 different candidates.

To defeat you your opposition, who owns the majority of shares, will have to do something like that. The result will usually be that at least 3 of the people you vote for will get on the board.