Posted on 06/15/2010 7:44:06 AM PDT by tophat9000
PORT CHESTER, N.Y. – Arthur Furano voted early — five days before Election Day. And he voted often, flipping the lever six times for his favorite candidate.
Furano cast multiple votes on the instructions of a federal judge and the U.S. Department of Justice as part of a new election system crafted to help boost Hispanic representation.
Voters in Port Chester, 25 miles northeast of New York City, are electing village trustees for the first time since the federal government alleged in 2006 that the existing election system was unfair.
Although the village of about 30,000 residents is nearly half Hispanic, no Latino had ever been elected to any of the six trustee seats, which until now were chosen in a conventional at-large election. Most voters were white, and white candidates always won.
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Are you freaking kidding me? Why not 10 votes? Or 20? Or 100? What happened to one man one vote? Such an old fashioned idea.
The lunatics are running the asylum.
This bastard and his administration are pushing the American people closer and closer to a choice between insurrection or slavery.
Has no one challenged this unconstitutional directive???
Funny you mention that. When the Supreme Court mandated that states use the one-man-one-vote system for state and local elections that actually DID disenfranchise many people. If you look at states like Maryland for example, people who live outside of the most populated parts of the state have no say in the workings of state government at all.
Please tell me this is satire. We are Sooooo screwed.
Is there anything some judge won’t order?
Impeach this judge.
He’s lost his mind.
Federal Judge Stephen Robinson said that violated the Voting Rights Act, and he approved a remedy suggested by village officials: a system called cumulative voting, in which residents get six votes each to apportion as they wish among the candidates. He rejected a government proposal to break the village into six districts, including one that took in heavily Hispanic areas.
Look at the precedent being established by the left..
Federal Judge Stephen Robinson approved a remedy suggested by village officials: a system called cumulative voting, in which residents get six votes each to apportion as they wish among the candidates.It's the first time any municipality in New York has used cumulative voting, said FairVote, a nonprofit election research and reform group. The system is used to elect the school board in Amarillo, Texas, the county commission in Chilton County, Ala., and the City Council in Peoria, Ill.
Is there a way out of this political twilight zone?
Who will get multiple votes in this fall’s congressional elections? After all,
we have never had a 100% progressive legislature.
Robinson was a federal judge on the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York. Robinson was nominated by President George W. Bush on March 5, 2003, to a seat vacated by John S. Martin, Jr.. He was confirmed by the United States Senate on September 17, 2003, and received commission on September 22, 2003. In February, 2010, Steven Robinson sentenced disgraced former New York City Police Commissioner Bernard Kerik to four years in federal prison on eight felonies, including lying to the White House and filing false taxes.
No words...no words.
That judge is a disgrace to America, and to freedom and the right to vote in general. He should be removed from the bench.
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How can this be legale?
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