A rural Delaware town is seeking to allow local businesses the right to vote, causing concern that corporate interests could sway local elections. Seaford, Del., with a population of about 7,000 in…

Maybe not quite an internet thing, but this is scarily like the rules of most cyberpunk dystopias from before the World Wide Web existed. The internet was supposed to prevent this kind of crap from coming true, dammit!

    • atzanteol@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
      2·
      1 year ago

      Proponents of this bill have tried to frame this as an innocuous way to give business owners more power

      Seriously?

      • Chais@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
        2·
        1 year ago

        As if businesses in North America needed any more power.
        Also, if the business owner already voted as a person, would they then vote again (likely the same way) as the business? Wouldn’t that be voter fraud?

  • ANGRY_MAPLE@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
    2·
    1 year ago

    If the company is owned within the state that it resides, would this not just be giving rich company owners a second vote?

    The voting system as it’s supposed to be is dead. If you have enough money in Delaware, you can vote twice. That isn’t fairness, nor is it equal representation.