State and Obamao regime sponsored multiple votings by one person

[calfoxwc]

<H1 id=yn-title>Say, they should let black voters all vote six times, because there aren't enough black Obama supporters in Congress, eh?

 

We are in BIG, BIG trouble.

 

Just wait til the PRESIDENTIAL election...

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Residents get 6 votes each in suburban NY election

 

By JIM FITZGERALD, Associated Press Writer Jim Fitzgerald, Associated Press Writer – 2 hrs 30 mins ago</H1>PORT CHESTER, N.Y. – Arthur Furano voted early — five days before Election Day. And he voted often, flipping the lever six times for his favorite candidate.

 

Furano cast multiple votes on the instructions of a federal judge and the U.S. Department of Justice as part of a new election system crafted to help boost Hispanic representation.

 

Voters in Port Chester, 25 miles northeast of New York City, are electing village trustees for the first time since the federal government alleged in 2006 that the existing election system was unfair. The election ends Tuesday and results are expected late Tuesday night.

 

Although the village of about 30,000 residents is nearly half Hispanic, no Latino had ever been elected to any of the six trustee seats, which until now were chosen in a conventional at-large election. Most voters were white, and white candidates always won.

 

Federal Judge Stephen Robinson said that violated the Voting Rights Act, and he approved a remedy suggested by village officials: a system called cumulative voting, in which residents get six votes each to apportion as they wish among the candidates. He rejected a government proposal to break the village into six districts, including one that took in heavily Hispanic areas.

 

Furano and his wife, Gloria Furano, voted Thursday.

 

"That was very strange," Arthur Furano, 80, said after voting. "I'm not sure I liked it. All my life, I've heard, 'one man, one vote.'"

 

It's the first time any municipality in New York has used cumulative voting, said Amy Ngai, a director at FairVote, a nonprofit election research and reform group that has been hired to consult. The system is used to elect the school board in Amarillo, Texas, the county commission in Chilton County, Ala., and the City Council in Peoria, Ill.

 

The judge also ordered Port Chester to implement in-person early voting, allowing residents to show up on any of five days to cast ballots. That, too, is a first in New York, Ngai said.

 

Village clerk Joan Mancuso said Monday that 604 residents voted early.

 

Gloria Furano gave one vote each to six candidates. Aaron Conetta gave two votes each to three candidates.

 

Frances Nurena talked to the inspectors about the new system, grabbed some educational material and went home to study. After all, it was only Thursday. She could vote on Friday, Saturday or Tuesday.

 

"I understand the voting," she said. "But since I have time, I'm going to learn more about the candidates."

 

On Tuesday, Candida Sandoval voted at the Don Bosco Center, where a soup kitchen and day-laborer hiring center added to the activity, and where federal observers watched the voting from a table in the corner.

 

"I hope that if Hispanics get in, they do something for all the Hispanic people," Sandoval said in Spanish. "I don't know, but I hope so."

 

FairVote said cumulative voting allows a political minority to gain representation if it organizes and focuses its voting strength on specific candidates. Two of the 13 Port Chester trustee candidates — one Democrat and one Republican — are Hispanic. A third Hispanic is running a write-in campaign after being taken off the ballot on a technicality.

 

Campaigning was generally low-key, and the election itself was less of an issue than housing density and taxes.

 

 

 

Hispanic candidates Fabiola Montoya and Luis Marino emphasized their volunteer work and said they would represent all residents if elected.

 

Gregg Gregory gave all his votes to one candidate, then said, "I think this is terrific. It's good for Port Chester. It opens it up to a lot more people, not just Hispanics but independents, too."

 

Vote coordinator Martha Lopez said that if turnout is higher than in recent years, when it hovered around 25 percent, the election would be a success — regardless of whether a Hispanic was elected.

 

"I think we'll make it," she said. "I'm happy to report the people seem very interested."

 

But Randolph McLaughlin, who represented a plaintiff in the lawsuit, said the goal was not merely to encourage more Hispanics to vote but "to create a system whereby the Hispanic community would be able to nominate and elect a candidate of their choice."

 

That could be a non-Hispanic, he acknowledged, and until exit polling is done, "it won't be known for sure whether the winners were Hispanic-preferred."

 

The village held 12 forums — six each in English and Spanish — to let voters know about the new system and to practice voting. The bilingual ballot lists each candidate across the top row — some of them twice if they have two party lines — and then the same candidates are listed five more times. In all, there are 114 levers; voters can flip any six.

 

Besides the forums, bright yellow T-shirts, tote bags and lawn signs declared "Your voice, your vote, your village," part of the educational materials also mandated in the government agreement. Announcements were made on cable TV in each language.

 

All such materials — the ballot, the brochures, the TV spots, the reminders sent home in schoolkids' backpacks — had to be approved in advance, in English and Spanish versions, by the Department of Justice.

 

Conetta said the voter education effort was so thorough he found voting easier than usual. "It was very different but actually quite simple," he said. "No problem."

 

 

[Chicopee John]

This CANNOT be legal.

 

Now, if they gave EVERYBODY 6 votes, maybe it wouldn't be so bad

[calfoxwc]

What is really concerning, is that it's a federal judge AND the U.S. Justic dept.

 

very troubling.

 

Unbelievable. And very, very dangerous for the PRECEDENT it sets for possible

 

political gain use in the near future.

[calfoxwc]

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/conte...0061803766.html

 

 

Now they say that the multiple votes for one Hispanic person system MAY SPREAD.

 

Now that the precedent has been set, they can simply give all blacks and liberal Dems

 

six votes, and the Obamao Regime stays in power.

 

Maybe for more than two terms?

 

I think we are in big, big trouble - they want to take our country away from us, and

 

dismantle the machinery that is in place so we can't ever get it back.

 

Think Chavez. Think that we are in big, big trouble. @@

[PB&J]

Hah, neither of you actually read the article posted.

 

First line: "Residents get 6 votes each in suburban NY election." Not that only Hispanic residents get six votes each, but that every voter gets six votes, black, white, purple or otherwise.

 

On the system itself: If half the town is Hispanic and there has never been a Hispanic elected, it may have something to do with shitty candidates rather than the voting system. But there is nothing unfair about giving everybody six votes, it is just a little weird.

[Mr. T]

This is messed up, maybe its time to start over.

[calfoxwc]

Oh, PB&J, I DID read the article.

 

HALF OF THE RESIDENTS were HISPANIC.

 

So, giving everybody 6 votes is

 

pretty much giving the Hispanics a gigantic advantage,

 

given that non-Hispanics would be split into different voting blocks.

 

It slants it, deliberately, and the POINT is,

 

it is trying to manipulate our electoral process, by the liberal/progressives in

 

our legal system, to get the results they want.

 

The underlying possibility, is that a conservative Republican did/could have been

 

going to win, so the judge ruled in favor of getting a Hispanic liberal? to the court.

 

Whatever. This sets a very, very dangerous precedent of election manipulation

 

Like Cuyahogoa county here in Ohio... give everybody six votes? That is like making it

 

six times more hard core Democrat extremely liberal.

 

Which, will be the point, under this Obamao regime. More and more of it will be tried.

 

Legalized? election fraud...