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To: tophat9000
Did anyone actually read the article (and I admit that I am the pot calling the kettle black because I often post without reading)? There are six trustee seats and the voters cast 6 votes. But instead of the typical ward method (1 trustee per district), staggered seat dates (so each of the six seats is subject to a separate vote), or even 6 votes on an at large list this judge has forced a cumulative voting system where you can use many of your votes for a single representative if you really, really want him. 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.

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.

26 posted on 06/15/2010 7:57:33 AM PDT by KarlInOhio (I am so immune to satire that I ate three Irish children after reading Swift's "A Modest Proposal")
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To: KarlInOhio
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?
75 posted on 06/15/2010 11:32:40 PM PDT by fr_freak
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