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Fri, 06-18-10 - 9:10pm by reportergary
Legally stuffing the ballot box
By GARY BAUMGARTEN
Paltalk News Network
Whatever happened to the concept of one man, one vote? Apparently it can get tossed out the window when a judge determines minorities are under-represented.
It happened most recently in Port Chester, New York. Concerned that Hispanics were not properly represented on the town board, a judge ruled that they could pull the voting lever six times for one candidate.
I'm not kidding.
This is supposedly to bring the town into compliance with the Voting Rights Act. Which I always thought was designed to ensure that everyone's vote counted. Once.
I'm originally from Detroit, which is now a black majority city. I suppose it could be argued that a white person would have a difficult time these days getting elected to the City Council. Could you imagine the uproar if a judge ruled that whites could vote six times for one candidate in Detroit?
Neighboring Dearborn, Michigan is becoming increasingly Muslim. I suppose the day might come when non-Muslims might petition a judge for the legal right to stuff the ballot box there as well.
Of course, we want the votes of minorities to be counted. But counted one time.
It's an absurd remedy to a contrived problem. The real solution is to end our obsession with race.
A white person running for office is no better nor no worse because of the color of his skin. An Hispanic is no better or no worse because of his or her ethnic heritage.
I've always been one to fight to ensure that everyone's vote gets counted equally. But if one person's vote is counted six times and another's only once - where's the equality in that?
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Whatever happened to the concept of one man, one vote? Apparently it can get tossed out the window when a judge determines minorities are under-represented.
It happened most recently in Port Chester, New York. Concerned that Hispanics were not properly represented on the town board, a judge ruled that they could pull the voting lever six times for one candidate.
I'm not kidding.
This is supposedly to bring the town into compliance with the Voting Rights Act. Which I always thought was designed to ensure that everyone's vote counted. Once.
I'm originally from Detroit, which is now a black majority city. I suppose it could be argued that a white person would have a difficult time these days getting elected to the City Council. Could you imagine the uproar if a judge ruled that whites could vote six times for one candidate in Detroit?
Neighboring Dearborn, Michigan is becoming increasingly Muslim. I suppose the day might come when non-Muslims might petition a judge for the legal right to stuff the ballot box there as well.
Of course, we want the votes of minorities to be counted. But counted one time.
It's an absurd remedy to a contrived problem. The real solution is to end our obsession with race.
A white person running for office is no better nor no worse because of the color of his skin. An Hispanic is no better or no worse because of his or her ethnic heritage.
I've always been one to fight to ensure that everyone's vote gets counted equally. But if one person's vote is counted six times and another's only once - where's the equality in that?
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