Residents get 6 votes each in suburban NY election [No, this is not from the Onion]

AP via Yahoo ^ | 6/15/2010 | Jim Fitzgerald

[Bigh4u2]

Then there is still 4 more seats to fill.

Then what?

I don’t know..

[<1/1,000,000th%]

Hard to get illegals to vote if they have to use their own names.

[HEM]

“The idea is that the whites will spread their votes around and the latinos will only vote for the few latino candidates.”

The idea is that the whites will vote for the best candidate for the position and the racist latinos will vote for the candidate of their skin color.

[TankerKC]

This headline is misleading. Everybody (of any ethnic background) got six votes in the election. That said, I can’t see how this was supposed to do anything, unless perhaps it meant that the non-Hispanic voters were more likely to split their votes whereas Hispanic voters would vote ethnic.

How dare you read the article! /s

[Hildy]

this is so unconstitutional..someone needs to sue or else let’s just be done with it and hand this Country over...

[WOBBLY BOB]

so if you had a Soclialist, a Green,a Democrat, a Progressive and a Republican running , you’d end up with ...a leftist?

it’s starting to sound like Italy.

no wonder leftists love IRV (instant runoff voting)

[Ready4Freddy]

Why not 10 votes? Or 20? Or 100?

Six council seats.

[Cacique]

Why bother with elections at all. The judge should have simply appointed who he wanted. Let’s see, communists don’t have the numbers to get into office. Their vote should count x100 everyone else’s to insure they get elected. Tell em again what a great president W was after nominating this guy.

[Blackyce]

Yeah, this is just a cumulative voting system. It’s just not that big of a deal. I don’t know the judge could justify using the voting rights act to impose it on behalf of ethnic minorities without proving an intent to discriminate, but it’s not going to change anything.

[stevie_d_64]

Yep, this is why we’ll need an Elections Administrator “politically” appointed, and insulated from the voters, able to allow groups “like” ACORN and other liberal groups to come in and take over voter registration, and have the operations and technical aspects of our elections in Harris County, Texas...

If it ain’t broke, then they’ll surely do something about that with this crooked idea...

[Ready4Freddy]

From wiki:

"As of November 2009, more than fifty communities in the United States use cumulative voting, all resulting from cases brought under the federal Voting Rights Act."

[neverdem]

Robinson was nominated by President George W. Bush on March 5, 2003...

Ugh!

[Jet Jaguar]

Hispanic apparent winner in unusual NY election
AP via Breitbart ^ | June 16, 2010 | By JIM FITZGERALD
Posted on June 16, 2010 1:29:36 AM EDT by Jet Jaguar

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2535518/posts

[Robert A Cook PE]

You’re assuming the Martians and Venusian are racists.

You’re also assuming that 3 bad and corrupt Martians are better than 3 good Venusians simply because they are a Martian.

Funny, I don’t think that way.

What if we elect the best 10 people for the 10 commissioners? (Or 6 in this particular case.) Tell me what’s wrong with that.

[fr_freak]

I'm not sure how fair such a system is, and I certainly don't like that it was imposed judicially instead of legislatively, but this isn't the end of the world.

I'm not sure you understand the situation correctly, so let me sum it up for you:

A judge overturned an existing election system and created a new one BY FIAT because he did not like the outcome that the election was historically producing. Let me repeat that: the judge redesigned the election system because he didn't like the OUTCOME.

In case I need to explain it further, the judge specifically did not like the fact that white people were getting elected, so he changed the system until he got non-white people elected.

See a problem yet?

[happinesswithoutpeace]

bump

[Quanah]

Port Chester is a formerly beautiful town on the NY/CT border. It has everything that should make it a great place to live; it’s on the coast, easy commute to NYC, and Greenwich, CT. It had some really nice properties and neighborhoods.

A few years back, for reasons I can’t explain, it became a magnet for hispanics, mostly illegal. Since then, property values have collapsed while social services budgets have skyrocketed, since few of the new residents pay any of the obscene NY state or city or county taxes, but many demand the welfare-state benefits afforded NY citizens. Much, much, of the income there is off the books and those nice properties are being rented (in many cases, for cash) to multiple occupants who all park their barely-running, uninsured vehicles in the front yards.

The few legitimate residents have now been disenfranchised of any means of saving what’s left.

[wolfcreek]

They make it sound so *normal*. Like, “Doesn’t everyone do this?”

[Monorprise]

“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.”

The Federal Supreme court robed the States of their republican form of government. Which is totally ironic as the same federal government was meant to help protect the state’s republican form of government.

Their excuses was the U.S. Senate was in the U.S. Constitution but they completely ignored the fact that the State senate along with everything else about the state government was in the state constitution.

That ruling came with in just 1 state shy of a constitutional convention to overturn it. It seems the Federal court has dictatorial powers as long as they can get 13 states to passively back them.

[KarlInOhio]

Another little known item....’legal’ aliens with green cards are allowed to vote in most municipal elections.

Replace "most" with "a few oddball". An occasional California city will allow non-citizen residents to vote in local elections, but they are very much the exceptions to the general rule.