Arthur Furano voted early — five days before Election Day. And he voted often, flipping the lever six times for his favorite candidate. Furano cast multiple votes on the instructions of a federal judge and the U.S. Department of Justice as part of a new election system crafted to help boost Hispanic representation."That was very strange," Furano, 80, said after voting. "I'm not sure I liked it. All my life, I've heard, `one man, one vote.'"
It's the first time any municipality in New York has used cumulative voting, said Amy Ngai, a director at FairVote, a nonprofit election research and reform group that has been hired to consult. The system is used to elect the school board in Amarillo, Texas, the county commission in Chilton County, Ala., and the City Council in Peoria, Ill.
This is the essence of collectivism -- transmuting individual rights into supposed group rights. It's no longer "one man, one vote." It's "carve up the pie by voting blocs." Ironically, the utopian worldview behind such groupthink results in MORE division, not less, as it pits groups against each other in the quest for power. Only when you deal with the individual, as equal sovereigns by right of their mutual Creator, is there any chance for equal justice under the law.


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