In Port Chester N.Y., the old adage of “one man, one vote” has fallen by the wayside, at least for now. A new voting system has been put into place with the hopes of boosting Hispanic representation giving each resident 6 votes, as whites consistently win the trustee seats. “That was very strange.”I’m not sure I liked it. All my life, I’ve heard, ‘one man, one vote”, Arthur Furano told the Associated Press after casting his vote. The federal government declared in 2006 that their at-large election system was unfair given their demographics and the actual outcomes.
