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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Right???
That was satire ... like from "The Onion", or "Scrappleface".
RIGHT????
How can this possibly be ok?
This is AZConservative.....
....Right?
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.
Although the village of about 30,000 residents is nearly half Hispanic,
How many are citizens of voting age versus how many are children, merely legal residents or even illegals. If only 2,000 of those 15,000 Hispanics are voting age citizens, then it is no surprise that they don't win elections.
We’re doomed!!
Everybody in the town gets six votes, regardless of ethnic background.
So move to the more poulated parts and run an effective campaign to change the balot or the representatives that are being elected. Disenfranchisement means you are barred from the process altogether, not that you feel your vote doesn’t count.
As a free country, we are free to influence voters to change their beliefs. That may be difficult, but freedom doesn’t mean things are easy.
Stephen Craig Robinson (born 1957) is a United States federal judge. Robinson was born in Brooklyn, New York. He received a B.A. from Cornell University in 1979. He received a J.D. from Cornell Law School in 1984. He was in private practice in New York, NY from 1984 to 1987. He was an assistant U.S. Attorney of the Southern District of New York from 1987 to 1991. He was a Managing director & associate general counsel, Kroll Associates from 1991 to 1993. He was a Principal deputy general counsel & special assistant to the director, Federal Bureau of Investigation from 1993 to 1995. He was a Counsel & chief compliance officer, Aetna U.S. Healthcare, Middletown, Connecticut from 1995 to 1998. He was a U.S. Attorney for the District of Connecticut from 1998 to 2001. He was an Interim manager, Empower New Haven, Inc., Connecticut from 2002 to 2003.
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.
The idea is that the whites will spread their votes around and the latinos will only vote for the few latino candidates.
Having read the article, it looks like everyone gets six votes, not just the Hispanics. The idea is to make it easier for the Hispanics to pile on the votes for their candidates, while the Anglos presumably would be too stupid to see what was going on, and spread their votes around. Everyone who thinks increasing complexity will aid the downscale voters, raise your hands.
So basically the white population was "guilty" of voting while the Hispanic population stayed home. This sure would open up a can of worms if allowed to stand. Election results throw out because not enough minority voters went to the polls or not enough minority candidates were on the ballot. Why not just go the next logical step and do away with the sham of elections altogether and just appoint a person of whatever ethnicity the government favors to the position? Oops, I better not give the Obama administration any ideas, they are probably already trying to figure out how to make this court decision apply in national elections.
I have a dream that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin but by the content of their character.
Just wait till the ACLU, SEIU and more run with this precedent in October. The clock will start ticking in November if the elections are jammed with fraud votes.
Yes and it involves a whole lot of guns and a violent overthrow of the federal government.
Why?
The idea is that the whites will spread their votes around and the latinos will only vote for the few latino candidates.
That's the way I read it as well. There is still something squirrelly about it.
The real issue is the fact that much of the Hispanic population is comprised of new immigrants. Port Chester has had a sizeable Latino population since the 1960s, but earlier generations have moved on (often to other parts of the country) once they realized that they are still paying high rents in Leftchester County.
Please don't alter headlines.
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