http://www.washingtonexaminer.com/p...here-residents-got-6-votes-each-96610564.html What a stupid solution. This "problem" sounds like something that a good get out the Hispanic vote campaign could have easily solved.
Re: Vote Early, Vote Often: NYC suburb residents get multiple votes to help elect Hispanic Everyone gets the same number of votes in a multimember district. People can divide their allotted votes among candidates however they choose. Nothing wrong with that unless you really hate third parties with a fiery passion. Note that this doesn't even change the majority party in dominance; it just makes the chances of a minority voice on board a bit larger. Note also that the previous system was about as anti democratic as an electoral system can be, with every seat being an at-large single member district, thereby assuring that the majority would in perpetuity control all seats.
Re: Vote Early, Vote Often: NYC suburb residents get multiple votes to help elect Hispanic If every voter had 6 votes, and most of the voters are white as it states in the article, then it was white voters who got this guy elected. Either they voted for him directly, or they spread their votes so thin that they obviously didn't favor any candidate over another. Seems fair enough.
Re: Vote Early, Vote Often: NYC suburb residents get multiple votes to help elect Hispanic It sounds sort of similar to the way I understand a lot of elections used to work back in the colonial and revolutionary periods, for the election of local legislative bodies. But it also sounds wrong somehow . . . one man, one vote is what we're used to these days.
Re: Vote Early, Vote Often: NYC suburb residents get multiple votes to help elect Hispanic It does seem odd -- but maybe that's just because, like Lanz said, we're used to another method. In a way, I like the idea of being able to make my vote better reflect my true level of support for candidates. If I'm really enthusiastic about a candidate, I could give him or her all my six votes for that office; if I'm really not that crazy about any of them, I can give a scattering of votes to all of the candidates I think are OK. There's some appeal to that.
Re: Vote Early, Vote Often: NYC suburb residents get multiple votes to help elect Hispanic I just don't see how it is discrimination if hispanics are allowed to vote but choose not to. It bothers me, this liberal tendency to change the rules for elections until they finally get the results they want, but I guess at least this time they changed the rules before the election, instead of after the fact.
Re: Vote Early, Vote Often: NYC suburb residents get multiple votes to help elect Hispanic Anything to speed up the inevitable balkanization of north America is a good thing in my opinion.
Re: Vote Early, Vote Often: NYC suburb residents get multiple votes to help elect Hispanic Skin will be ready with rifle, MRAs and smutty magazines. Still, Skin can't help but wish that it was machines taking over the United States instead of spics. At least machines wouldn't blare that god-forsaken circus music.
Re: Vote Early, Vote Often: NYC suburb residents get multiple votes to help elect Hispanic Key point. Motivation for this change aside, this is a rather different concept. I sure I had a few extra votes in '08, for sure.
Re: Vote Early, Vote Often: NYC suburb residents get multiple votes to help elect Hispanic We covered this before, on many occasions: If common sense and fair-play are sacrificed for the sake of diversity, so be it. Broken eggs, ommlets and all that.
Re: Vote Early, Vote Often: NYC suburb residents get multiple votes to help elect Hispanic Does this voting system in any way contradict common sense or fair play?
Re: Vote Early, Vote Often: NYC suburb residents get multiple votes to help elect Hispanic It's different! It's not usual!
