Delaware News Journal: Voting rights for Delaware corporations being weighed; Bill advanced to allow artificial entities say in Seaford elections

05.15.2023 / By Meredith Newman
Delaware News Journal: Voting rights for Delaware corporations being weighed; Bill advanced to allow artificial entities say in Seaford elections

Claire Snyder-Hall, executive director of Common Cause Delaware, an organization that advocates for open government, called this an "outrageous attempt to get wealthy property owners, some of whom don't even live in Delaware, an unfair say in town elections." "We're seeing attacks on freedom to vote all over the country, and mostly Republicans trying to create barriers to voting," she told Delaware Online/The News Journal. "And this is kind of a different way of getting at the same thing, right? "It's like 'Oh, we can't restrict people, but let's empower other people to vote. Let's empower the companies to vote," she said. "And so it dilutes the votes of everyday people in a different way."

Claire Snyder-Hall, executive director of Common Cause Delaware, an organization that advocates for open government, called this an “outrageous attempt to get wealthy property owners, some of whom don’t even live in Delaware, an unfair say in town elections.”

“We’re seeing attacks on freedom to vote all over the country, and mostly Republicans trying to create barriers to voting,” she told Delaware Online/The News Journal. “And this is kind of a different way of getting at the same thing, right?

“It’s like ‘Oh, we can’t restrict people, but let’s empower other people to vote. Let’s empower the companies to vote,” she said. “And so it dilutes the votes of everyday people in a different way.”

 

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