Thursday, June 17, 2010

One person, six votes

Boned Jello Lani Guinier's Revenge?

In 1993 Hillary Clinton was having trouble finding an Attorney General who paid her taxes (Zoe Baird), or wasn't a left wing reparations nut (Lani Guinier).  What a difference 16 years can make, wot?   Anyway, this,  what I found at SondraK, is the latest manifestation of nuts running the asylum.

“ PORT CHESTER, N.Y. — An unusual election in a New York City suburb, in which voters could cast six ballots for one candidate, apparently resulted Wednesday in the first Hispanic elected to the village Board of Trustees.

The court-imposed election was held after a federal judge ruled that Port Chester's conventional at-large trustee elections violated the Voting Rights Act. 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. Most voters were white, and white candidates always won.
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The Guinier nomination tanked primarily because her similar ideas, about "our unfair voting system," were anathema to just about everyone, Democrats included.   All hail the Obamalution!

6/17/2010 11:35:00 AM 4 Comments

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Anonymous said...

I saw that yesterday too. If I lived there, I'd be looking for pitchforks and torches.

Casca

6/17/10, 1:50 PM
OregonGuy said...

As may have been noted elsewhere, Oregon is a "progressive" state. We have centralized state control of investment and development, and, of course, one of the most anti-business environments in the United States. "We do things different here."

This includes dealing with the results of elections. Say, for "what ifs," the Republican nominee for the Presidential Election of 2012 wins the majority of votes in Oregon.

In years past, this would mean that the electors of Oregon would vote for the Republican winner. Makes sense, right?

No more.

Read 'em and weep.

http://www.oregonlive.com/opinion/index.ssf/2009/05/national_popular_vote_what_a_c.html

6/17/10, 2:37 PM
Vladtheimp said...

Here come da judge http://www.markle.org/images/photo_robinson.jpg

From Law.com "Robinson, according to a new report by the Administrative Office of the U.S. Courts, had 155 motions pending for more than six months as of March 2007 -- the second-heaviest motions backlog in the country.

Lawyers who practice in his court describe Robinson as hard-working, conscientious and well-liked, but the judge is also widely known for his inertia when it comes to making decisions."

Seems like he should have left this one on the back burner.

6/18/10, 7:06 AM
titan saturnae said...

To be fair here, cumulative voting has previously been used in many situations in elections in parts of the US.

It is far easier to implement and administer than single member districts, and probably less divisive for purposes of ongoing governing body relations too.

6/18/10, 2:15 PM

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