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Corporations can vote in some Delaware elections, judge says

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Re: Corporations can vote in some Delaware elections, judge says

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Post by chuckadams »

jauntywundrkind wrote: post #8

You can register a corporation in Delaware for $109. The Town of Fenwick Island mentioned here has a population of 400. It's high noon for this matter, & about time to start repealing corporate rights. The undoing of this travesty should be a federal project. But hopefully Delaware can course correct themselves, and reverse the mega-threat to humanity they have been unleashing. At least states like Hawaii are heading…

The state of Hawaii was the most recent to be expropriated from its natives at the behest of corporate landlords, so they're probably a bit raw about it.

Re: Corporations can vote in some Delaware elections, judge says

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chuckadams wrote: post #35
mindslight wrote: post #20

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Doing this at scale might be even cheaper than that. A Delaware Series LLC is $300/year, which then lets you make an unlimited number of independent legal entities. You don't even have to file paperwork with the state to create these new entities, just your own internal bookkeeping. Although presumably you'd have to file paperwork to transfer them a tiny sliver of real estate ($$), register to vote (free), and to act…

I have to imagine that's an OpenClaw workflow by now.

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Re: Corporations can vote in some Delaware elections, judge says

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Post by rayiner »

ceejayoz wrote: post #27
rayiner wrote: post #14

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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41% of Delaware voters picked Trump in 2024. Per https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:2024_United_States_P... , Fenwick Island itself went red (the absolute bottom-right-most spot).

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Re: Corporations can vote in some Delaware elections, judge says

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Post by klaff »

bluefirebrand wrote: post #21

I hope we can agree that allowing corporations to vote in any kind of political process is taking corporate personhood too far

I absolutely agree. They shouldn't be able to vote and they shouldn't have free speech rights. Corporations are a legal structure - a way to allow risk sharing to encourage investment that would otherwise maybe not happen if one had to risk everything in order to invest. But when we choose to allow that, and it is a choice, we should not give those entities the rights of people. It is simply absurd.

Re: Corporations can vote in some Delaware elections, judge says

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Post by pessimizer »

nh23423fefe wrote: post #19
John7878781 wrote: post #2

This sounds completely absurd. What's stopping me from starting up a bunch of LLCs or Trusts to rig the vote?

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.

The answer to the question asked is not here. Accusing somebody of seeing "visions" is not an answer, it is an evasion.

Re: Corporations can vote in some Delaware elections, judge says

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Post by wat10000 »

rayiner wrote: post #25

I don’t understand why people have so much trouble understanding that a “corporation” is just a proxy for the humans that own and control the corporation. In this case, non-residents who own a house on the island can vote according to the charter. The charter just says that this doesn’t change because you move ownership of the house into a legal entity that some human then owns and controls. The actual grievance seem…

If the corporation is just a proxy for the owners then why is this in court? Why aren't the humans just voting directly? It's well established that it's OK for humans to vote.
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