Latest comic on a Delaware town's bill that would allow LLCs and other corporations to vote in local elections:

#democracy #voting #plutocracy

@jensorensen Kind of curious why this rubicon hasn't been crossed already … what's stopped it?
@ckent @jensorensen it was done in City of Sydney years ago. Not sure if it’s still in action, though. Note I have to go check…

@europlus @jensorensen I think they tried and yet the popular candidate who'd been there forever still won. They tried to boot her out by rigging the system and still couldn't.

Thing is, that was done by tenancy and not by "citizenship", where you could dangerously begin giving votes per share, or dollar, or anything — even if it's "a whole company", those are definitely cheap to make.

@ckent @jensorensen it was started well before Clover. I remember it happening when the DTP company I worked for in ‘87-‘90 got to vote. I did Frank Sartor’s original campaign material while working at that company. l still have copies of some.
@europlus @jensorensen Wow. Well I think we can learn something if we can understand why this hasn't been tried (or succeeded) here or anywhere else, yet? It's either a story of what we have to lose, or the hard work others have done to defend.