Corporations can vote in some Delaware elections, judge says

What the fuck are we doing Delaware?

How? Wouldn't they have to go through a voter registration process that requires a voter id and ss#, and who casts the vote? The CEO or someone selected from the board?.. and couldn't some rich asshole just start a whole bunch of corporations to give themselves as many votes as they want? This blatantly goes against the one person one vote principle.

If companies can vote, have free speech rights, and are people then why is it legal for one company to own another? Isn't that slavery?

How can you vote as an individual and corporate entity? Could one not just incorporate hundreds of companies just to annihilate other voters?

The lawsuit [doesn't] show “that entity property owners vote sufficiently as a bloc to usually defeat the preferred candidates of natural persons...”

This is "no harm no foul," except it's a judge and he's actually making this argument seriously.

"Persons" don't vote. Citizens do.

As people have been saying for years, I'll believe corporations are people when Texas executes one.

“A novel ruling,” Christ almighty.

Karsnitz dismissed the lawsuit from Delaware’s Superior Court, citing “the principle of one person/entity/one vote.”

This is how you get people to bring back dragging someone into the street and horsewhipping them. I’m not advocating it, it’s just the natural response some people are going to have to being told corporations get to vote in a state with more corporations than people.

So... if I own a company and spin off... oh, lets say a million shell corporations, have I generated a million voters?

The logic of free speech applying to corporations is that they are an extension of their operators, making restrictions to them effectively restrictions on the operators.

This is way more wild. This gives corporations people-rights distinct from their operators.

So if you’re a CEO you get two votes?

This is what this seems like to me…

Why go through all the trouble of simulating that you have a Democracy by having Money sponsoring politicians in a system where only a few politicians can de facto be elected, when you can have Money just directly vote?!

Seems a lot more efficient if you remove intermediary steps and middlemen.

Also removing all the smoke & mirrors is a lot more honest.

I am actually surprised they've become so open about the system being an Oligarchy rather than a Democracy.

If companies can vote, they should be subject to the death penalty like everyone else.

Ok, and if they're people then we can apply legal ramifications to them, right? Right?!?!

So let me get this straight... Corporations have the right to vote all the while the government is trying to purge registered voters from the polls? How long until the fucking corporations end up with multiple votes due to size?

Ah, taking a play out of the ol' "City Of London" book!

What the fuck‽ This needs to be banned immediately

Also this is super easy to game

How does a corporation aquire the necessary citizenship to vote?

That's fine, as long as the corporation does so without the aid of any other entity.

Its not a new idea: the City of London in the U.K. has had one MP chosen by the businesses there since the mid 13th century*. There are businesses with offices there just so they can influence the result.

** Some would say the Norman conquest. The city certainly had special privileges then, but parliament didn't exist in a recognisable form until Magna Carta.

And given most C-suite consult LLMs heavily, we're now on the slope to where robot overlords run the show.

Would it be best? Debatably not. Would it be better than Trump? Of course.