"Cumulative voting" is a procedure used for electing directors in which shareholders are entitled to multiply the number of votes they are entitled to cast by the number of directors for whom they are entitled to vote, then use their votes for a single director candidate or to distribute their vote among multiple candidates. This type of voting is intended to give minority shareholders more opportunity to elect at least one director. Cumulative voting may be mandated by a state's corporate law (for example, California law provides for cumulative voting).