Mastodawn

Finally, Citizens United comes to its logical conclusion.

A judge in Delaware, where many big U.S. companies are incorporated, ruled ‌on Tuesday that a small town that allows corporations to vote in municipal elections was not violating the state's constitution.

https://www.reuters.com/legal/government/delaware-court-upholds-voting-by-companies-small-towns-election-2026-05-26/

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Danneau 5d ago

@FritzAdalis
It is a law in many municipalities that a person owning a business, even though residing outside jurisdiction, can vote.

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Patch You Up 5d ago

@danneau @FritzAdalis A person yes, but this ruling gives votes to the corporations themselves, not the owners of said corporations. So you or I could set up a shell corp, register it in Delaware and buy a vacant lot in Fenwick Island. Then we could have the corp vote in elections there while still retaining our ability to vote in elections where we actually live. This ruling is legalizing more votes for those with more money.

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Danneau

@Jumpmed @FritzAdalis

Got it, and got that right away back when CU came down. It has been disheartening to watch the slide into corporate corruption being accepted at all levels as legitimate political speech as well as to watch as the nastiest of human constructs displace actual humans in the making of decisions that determine the course of all life on the only habitable planet we know.