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by nh23423fefe 20 days ago
Read the opinion.

> I appreciate that Plaintiff may disagree with Delaware’s policy of authorizing certain municipalities to allow voting on behalf of entity property owners. Visions of faceless large corporations or even HAL, 55 controlling a small town are frightening and the stuff of science fiction. However, Plaintiff has not demonstrated that this policy violates the principle of one person/entity/one vote.
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pessimizer 20 days ago
The answer to the question asked is not here. Accusing somebody of seeing "visions" is not an answer, it is an evasion.
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josefritzishere 20 days ago
It fundamentally violates one person/entity/one vote. Corporations are not sentient. If you let them vote, a person gets to vote twice. There's no way around that conflict. I feel like this has to collapse on appeal or the nation is doomed.
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nh23423fefe 20 days ago
> a person gets to vote twice.

how do they do that?

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Refreeze5224 20 days ago
The owner votes as themselves, and again as the corporate entity.
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ceejayoz 20 days ago
No. Per the ruling:

> Where a voter is entitled to vote by virtue of being both a resident and as an owner of real property, that voter shall be entitled to only one vote; where a voter is entitled to vote by ownership of two or more parcels of real property, that voter shall be entitled to only one vote.

However, that seems to get messy with multi-owner LLCs where you might give 1% of each LLC to a bunch of your buddies and have them each vote as POA for theirs.

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SoftTalker 20 days ago
The POA is to vote as a proxy for the entity. The entity gets one vote. Not one vote per shareholder.
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setr 20 days ago
If you’re a shareholder in 5 companies, each owning 2 parcels of land, each with their own PoA, and you yourself hold land — then you have “influence” into 6 votes, though only direct ownership of 1 vote
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pseudalopex 20 days ago
1 person 1 vote does not mean in each city where they own property.
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ceejayoz 20 days ago
"One person, one vote" is clearly a per-race thing, or I'd violate it by voting for President and Senator at the same time.
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kjkjadksj 20 days ago
Whoever dictates the company vote then votes for themselves.
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