Posted on 06/15/2010 11:44:18 AM PDT by Cheesel
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. The election ends Tuesday and results are expected late Tuesday night.
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You assume a lot. What makes you think that white folks votes are even counted?
So now we have affirmative action in the ballot box. If you don’t like the outcome, change the rules...the liberal lifestyle.
And NY-29 gets none...
Seems to me that this would be blatantly unconstitutional.
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Socialist Justice. Inaction.
If I had a dollar for every time I've said that lately...
This judge has an odd sense of "fairness"..............
Democrat support continues to drop. So they have to inflate the numbers however they can.
It isn’t about democracy. It’s about winning elections and proclaiming “majority support”.
The public rejects same sex marriage and Obamacare as well.
Our representatives no longer represent.
change the system to get the election results you want I guess
It's not as bad as it sounds, as poorly written in the headline and beginning of the article. Cumulative voting is a known method. Every citizen's vote counts the same as every other citizen's. Except instead of getting one vote that has to be for one person, you get multiple votes to apportion among your favorites, but you can still put them all towards one candidate.
I'm not a fan of this method, but it is generally valid.
2/6 here, 3/6 there, and 1/6 somewhere else.
You remember Lani Guinier, the Quota Queen? Voting schemes of this sort were her claim to fame.
Leftards love IRV .
What I don’t see is how does this guarantee a Hispanic official? If the judge is so afraid that the reason no Hispanic has ever been elected is because Hispanics don’t have enough votes, then how will this fix it? It assumes that People are not individuals, they are groups, think in groups, vote in groups and all group members have the exact same political needs. So, is the idea that the white majority will vote for Hispanic if they can split their vote? What if the majority of whites don’t split their votes?
It is actually just a typical cumulative voting approach similar to what many corporations have for their board of directors. There are six seats on the council, and among all the candidates vying for those six seats you have six votes. So you can vote once for each seat, or you may cast all six votes for a candidate for one seat, or you may divide your six votes for the six seats in any combination you choose. And the white folks get the same six votes that the non-white folks get.
It may be a STUPID way of electing your city council, but there is certainly nothing unconstitutional about it.
really...???
how does justice order such a thing within the law?
No, I think she actually favored voting schemes that gave minorities a disproportionate share of votes.
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