Imagine you are the financial manager for a corporation purchasing farm equipment costing $600,000. The following questions pertain to this financial decision.

1. The corporations shareholders are dissatisfied with these management decisions and a group is organizing to voice their concerns at the next annual meeting. Assume there are 100,000 voting shares and elections for the 9 board positions are managed using cumulative voting. If there are only two voting groups, one supporting the board and one against, how many votes do the dissenters require to elect one candidate to the board? How would this change with a straight vote?