Yeah, what's wrong with the tyranny of the majority, huh bub?
Just this once, I'll let somebody else speak for me. I thought that this pithy comment summed it up nicely:
Judge Robinson is a Republican, was appointed by President Bush and this case started when Bush was in office. This judge isn't an activist and President Obama had nothing to do with this. Cumulative voting is a system used in over 50 US cities with high minority populations to ensure proportional representation. Unlike a winner-take-all, single-vote system, in a plural system like this, voters can split their votes between several candidates and the highest vote getters are all elected. Instead of 6 individual elections, you have one and the six people with the most votes win. This isn't new, unconstitutional, or illegal just because you haven't heard of it.
In fact, it seems to me that you've participated in discussions here about alternate voting systems, and (obviously this was long ago) without the kneejerk derision. Slow news day?