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Someone please explain to my why I shouldn't commit myself to a mental institution after reading this. Whatever happened to one man one vote?
1 posted on 06/16/2010 6:03:02 AM PDT by animal172
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To: animal172
The real problem is obviously white-racism.

The solution is simple.

White people should not be allowed to vote.

2 posted on 06/16/2010 6:06:45 AM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum ("The only stable state is the one in which all men are equal before the law." -- Aristotle)
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To: animal172

That judge needs to be horse whipped. This is freaking unbelievable!


3 posted on 06/16/2010 6:07:38 AM PDT by pgkdan (I Miss Ronald Reagan!)
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Although the reason is really stupid, voting schemes like this are not new. Think of it as fractional voting, where you can spread your vote by one/sixth increments. You can either give parts to different candidates or all to one.

Again, the racial reason for doing this is absurd, but different voting schemes are not without precedent in the US. I seem to remember that Bloomsburg, Pennsylvania did something like this historically.

5 posted on 06/16/2010 6:08:57 AM PDT by billakay
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To: animal172

My friend lives there and this is true with a large illegal
population.


6 posted on 06/16/2010 6:09:26 AM PDT by Dr. Ursus
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Our Overlords have decided that our electoral system needs to be deformed and twisted until it produces the results that they want. Shades of Lani Guinier, one of Clinton's rejected nominees. From Wiki, and this is why she had to withdraw; interesting that it is now being imposed in New York:

"Guinier's theories were first presented in law-school publications. They were also aired in part with her 1994 publication, The Tyranny of the Majority. In this work and others, Guinier suggests various ideas to strengthen minority groups' voting power, and rectify what is, according to her, an unfair voting system.... Some of the ideas she considers are:

Cumulative voting, a system in which each voter has "the same number of votes as there are seats or options to vote for, and they can then distribute their votes in any combination to reflect their preferences"--a system often used on corporate boards in 30 states, as well as by school boards and county commissions.

Multi-member "superdistricts" is another strategy which "modifies winner-take-all majority rule to require that something more than a bare majority of voters must approve or concur before action is taken."

7 posted on 06/16/2010 6:10:29 AM PDT by La Lydia
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To: animal172

everyone gets six votes.
you can vote once for six candidates, or six times for one candidate.
it sounds strange but not unfair.


8 posted on 06/16/2010 6:10:55 AM PDT by devere
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To: animal172

“Whatever happened to one man one vote?”

It didn’t produce the correct result. We have moved beyond the reactionary concept of equal opportunity and now seek social justice by embracing the progressive requirement for equal outcomes.


9 posted on 06/16/2010 6:11:08 AM PDT by swain_forkbeard (Rationality may not be sufficient, but it is necessary.)
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To: animal172

I understand that the search function on this site is really poor, but seriously - this article was posted three of four times already.


12 posted on 06/16/2010 6:13:43 AM PDT by CT-Freeper (www.ctf.org)
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For clarity, everyone in the city gets six votes, not just the hispanics. Everyone gets one vote, but they are voting with six points with which they can allocate across any of the candidates.

I am sure that the logic is that this will allow some candidates to get votes who would not have otherwise. However, I don’t think that this will really matter. The reason that no hispanic has been elected is because the community has a very large portion of illegal aliens who cannot vote.


16 posted on 06/16/2010 6:20:28 AM PDT by bravedog
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To: animal172

Kind of illegal isn’t it?


17 posted on 06/16/2010 6:21:29 AM PDT by freekitty (Give me back my conservative vote; then find me a real conservative to vote for)
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To: animal172

I think you are missing the BIG picture.

Democrats and voter fraud are synonomous. They have no sense of honor, code of ethics or moral compass - to them winning is everything.

So, if each man gets 6 votes, and we know from history that fewer than 30% of the people bother to vote; you can legitimately steal 5 out of 6 votes from 70% of the population - and go undetected. Why? Because there is 1 remaining ‘vote’ per person - the 70% will be considered non-voting; yet the total number of votes will overwhelmingly go to the Democratic party candidate.

So, the dead won’t be flagged for voting once, because they will only cast 5/6th of a vote for the Democratic party candidate.

Why else would the Democrats want this? There is NO LEGITIMATE reason to do this.


18 posted on 06/16/2010 6:21:33 AM PDT by Hodar (Who needs laws .... when this "feels" so right?)
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To: animal172

This is not fair. Furano should have one vote. Now if they really wanted to fix the problem, the other alternative is to give the conservative white voters only a 1/6 of a vote. One vote for the Hispanics, 1/6 of a vote for the whites. There.


25 posted on 06/16/2010 6:49:43 AM PDT by discipler (How's that 'hope and change' working for 'ya? - RL)
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To: animal172

The bigger issue is how, with the stroke of a pen, the judge gets to change voting laws. Can you imagine if this starts to happen all over?


26 posted on 06/16/2010 7:05:55 AM PDT by raybbr (Someone who invades another country is NOT an immigrant - illegal or otherwise.)
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To: animal172

It seems that everyone gets six votes, just like they did in the past, since there are six seats to fill at large.

The only difference is that now each voter can cast all six of their votes for a single candidate if they want to.

It’s nothing to get alarmed about.


27 posted on 06/16/2010 7:12:32 AM PDT by devere
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To: animal172
Robinson, Stephen C.
Born 1957 in Brooklyn, NY

Federal Judicial Service:
Judge, U. S. District Court, Southern District of New York
Nominated by George W. Bush on March 5, 2003, to a seat vacated by John S. Martin, Jr.; Confirmed by the Senate on September 17, 2003, and received commission on September 22, 2003.

Education:
Cornell University, B.A., 1979
Cornell Law School, J.D., 1984

Professional Career:
Private practice, New York, NY, 1984-1987
Assistant U.S. attorney, Southern District of New York, 1987-1991
Managing director & associate general counsel, Kroll Associates, 1991-1993
Principal deputy general counsel & special assistant to the director, Federal Bureau of Investigation, 1993-1995
Counsel & chief compliance officer, Aetna U.S. Healthcare, Middletown, Connecticut, 1995-1998
U.S. Attorney for the District of Connecticut, 1998-2001
Interim manager, Empower New Haven, Inc., Connecticut, 2002-2003

Race or Ethnicity: African American

Gender: Male

29 posted on 06/16/2010 7:30:20 AM PDT by SmithL
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To: animal172

Ethnic Cleansing block by block.


31 posted on 06/16/2010 7:57:43 AM PDT by The Toll
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To: animal172

One man one vote is the only way. One man 6 votes is CRIMINAL!!!!!!!!!!!!!


33 posted on 06/16/2010 8:16:57 AM PDT by Pilated
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The votes are supposed to reflect the wishes of the community, not just one nationality or minority.

I’m of English descent, and I want six votes because I am a minority.


35 posted on 06/16/2010 8:42:42 AM PDT by kitkat (OBAMA hates us. Well, maybe a LOT of Kenyans do.)
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To: animal172
crafted to help boost Hispanic representation.

What insanity....

36 posted on 06/16/2010 8:45:45 AM PDT by dragnet2
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