Evilphd666 [he/him, comrade/them]
electoralismCorporations, partnerships, trusts, limited liability companies, and other “artificial entities” have the right to vote in Delaware elections under some circumstances, a judge said in a novel ruling Tuesday.
Judge Craig A. Karsnitz rejected an ACLU challenge to a charter permitting voting in local elections by the entities that own most of the property in the Town of Fenwick Island, one of several municipalities in the state with similar provisions. Karsnitz dismissed the lawsuit from Delaware’s Superior Court, citing “the principle of one person/entity/one vote.”
“Visions of faceless large corporations or even HAL controlling a small town are frightening and the stuff of science fiction,” but “trusts, partnerships, limited liability companies, and corporations are expressly recognized as ‘persons’ in the Delaware Code,” the judge said.
and my LLC too!
Are the people that make those companies not allowed to vote? Is it not in the companies' interest to trust that their employees will vote in favor of those companies?
"money in politics is a serious issue"
I fucking love voting! I fucking love democracy!
So how does this work, a CEO or whatever first casts his own vote, and then asks the poll worker for a second ballot to vote on his business's behalf?
And someone who manages 100 properties under separate entity names gets to vote 101 times? Or manages a company with 99 sub-entities/branches?
Judge rejected an ACLU challenge to a charter permitting voting in local elections by the entities that own most of the property in the Town of Fenwick Island
The group said entities make up about 12% of registered voters in the town
Wtf??
Several other towns in Delaware allow companies and other legal entities to vote in local elections if they own property in the municipality.
A DelAWARE ~~Company~~ "Person"
let one billion more LLCs bloom in delaware.
Exactly. And its doable online so im thinking if buying a town with some shell companoes online. Get a candidate on the lists and we fix it
Karsnitz dismissed the lawsuit from Delaware’s Superior Court, citing “the principle of one person/entity/one vote.”
The principle of one person/entity, one vote has always been integral to America. Except for the electoral college. And the senate. And unequal congressional districts. And the incarcerated not being allowed to vote. And the decades of the 3/5 compromise in the antebellum south.
For people not familiar with US history, it's worth clarifying: The "3/5th compromise" did not mean slaves got to cast votes worth 60% of an ordinary vote. It meant that in every census, the slave states got to count all of their slaves and add 60% of that number to their population for the purpose of representation in Congress. You could literally buy extra seats in the House of Representatives by importing slaves.
Right, it wasn’t a lesser vote that slaves got, it was functionally free whites being gifted the slaves’ votes.
Right, it wasn’t a lesser vote that slaves got, it was functionally free whites being gifted the slaves’ votes.
It wasn't even that democratic. There were still property requirements as well.
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