Posted on 06/15/2010 12:53:59 PM PDT by surroundedbyblue
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.
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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Illegal Mexicans must get 12 votes now.
is this being appealed or anything
This is . . . well . . . jawdropping! Judicial activism at its worst! This judge should be impeached.
Isn’t this standard practice in Cook County?
It's stupid, but it is not disproportionate voting for Hispanics.
I want my vote to count 100 times. I AM A TAX PAYER AND LAND OWNER!
So gringos are 1/6 of a person?
I can't see how this makes the election more fair.
I believe the reason most Hispanics don't vote is because they're ILLEGAL ALIENS.
This isn’t possible. The DOJ and a Federal Judge. Can’t they read the constitution? Equal protection, etc...?
Did not see this previous post
It’s still idiotic. What’s the point of having 6 times as many votes cast? What if no Hispanics win even in this election?
There is nothing wrong or illegal about it.
A little unconventional, maybe - but not illegal.
Q: When does a village become a town?
A: When it gets its second idiot.
Q: When does the Federal Judiciary lose all credibility with the people?
A: Same answer. Happened a long time ago.
setting the stage for this Instant Run-Off voting that Marxists have been salivating over for many years now (allows you to flood the ballot with liberal whack-job candidates, and through a cumulative process outvote any sane, fairly conservative candidate)
The ballot sort of looks like the old punch-card ballot for the Major League Baseball All-Star Game. And we all know how fair and impartial THAT was /sarc
It’s cummulative voting. Everyone gets 6 votes. Idea is that minorities would lump their votes into one minority candidate.
Fine for stocks.
In variations on a theme European countries, ancient taxing authorities in Germany in various places AND American stockholder owned corporations vote this way.
For example, the company has a million shares. There's one vote per share. You want to spread your almost half ownership of 499,000 shares in such a way that you can more or less get your own people on the board. What you do is toss 4 votes to candidate 1, but 125,999 to each of 4 different candidates.
To defeat you your opposition, who owns the majority of shares, will have to do something like that. The result will usually be that at least 3 of the people you vote for will get on the board.
fNo hispanics will win office under this system.
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