• dejected_warp_core@lemmy.world
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    2 days ago

    Oh no. It’s not even new. WTF, Delaware?

    Nonresident voting in local elections has been permitted ​in Fenwick Island since it was incorporated in 1953, according to the court ruling. In 2008, Delaware’s General Assembly amended ‌the charter ⁠to allow non-resident voting by artificial entities, including corporations, partnerships, trusts and limited liability companies, which must be chartered in Delaware.

    Several other towns in Delaware allow companies and other legal entities to vote in local elections if they own property in the municipality.

    So not only is the state of DE a tax haven, and cravenly pro-corporate at that, but this would allow all those companies chartered there (with nothing more than a rented closet and PO Box) to continue to vote for the status quo. If the good people of that state wanted to vote these assholes out and/or make corporate voting illegal, it’s possible that they no longer can.