Judge Opens Door for Corporations to VOTE in State Elections

Añadido: 2026-05-30

[00:00:00]A judge says that corporations can now vote.

[00:00:04]Yeah.

[00:00:05]Delaware. Put up a full mask.

[00:00:09]Obvious insanity of this.

[00:00:11]According to Bloomberg Law, corporation Corporations, partnerships, trusts, limited liability companies, and other quote artificial entities, end quote, have the right to vote in Delaware elections under some circumstances, a judge said in a novel ruling on Tuesday. Um I got to say this.

[00:00:34]I got to say this. First year law school, you learn Delaware is a different country as it relates to businesses, corporations, etc. As a matter of fact, a lot of companies will move their corporate holdings in Delaware because of the ridiculous rulings in Delaware and the ridiculous statutes that protect a company that has its home base in Delaware. So, if this is going to happen anywhere, it's going to happen in Delaware or Florida, but likely Delaware. All right. So, a judge Put him up.

[00:01:05]Judge Craig A.

[00:01:08]Karsnitz rejected an ACLU challenge to a charter permitting voting in local elections by entities that own most of the property in the town of Fenwick Island, one of the several municipalities in the state with similar provisions.

[00:01:24]The judge dismissed the lawsuit from Delaware Superior Court, citing quote the principle of one person uh entity, one vote.

[00:01:33]Quote, visions a faceless large corporations or even HAL controlling a small town is frightening and the stuff of science fiction, but trusts, partnerships, limited liability companies, and corporations are expressly recognized as persons in the Delaware code, the judge said. The dispute over municipal voting in a tiny coastal community represents an unusual flashpoint in the decades-long fight over the free speech rights of corporations and the dark money flooding the American electoral system. The US Supreme Court held in 2010 uh 2010 Citizens United versus Federal Election Commission that political spending counts as constitutionally protected speech.

[00:02:21]Delaware home to more corporations than people is a fitting place for reality to outpace satire.

[00:02:33]The state constitutional provisions expressly enshrining corporate personhood reflect Delaware's budgetary reliance on billions in fees it raises annually from more than the 2 million business entities chartered there.

[00:02:47]The judge writing in a 19-page opinion Tuesday rejected an array of constitutional arguments advanced by the ACLU including the claim that entity voting dilutes the political power of living people. The lawsuit, quote, does not allege discrimination based on race or political partnership show that entity property owners vote sufficiently as a block to usually defeat the preferred candidates of natural persons or assert that the judge's charter distinguishes uh between natural persons and entity proper owners with the discriminatory intent to fence out natural persons.

[00:03:25]Um the judge said, "It is a cluster.

[00:03:28]This is This is hell on wheels."

[00:03:31]Um is Delaware.

[00:03:34]All right? So ironically the argument is being made for municipalities which municipalities, well under limited circumstances, they actually have the right to do a lot of different things. Uh for example um teenagers before they reach 18 can vote in some municipalities because municipalities can create rules that allow or govern individuals who are not of voting status yet legally for let's say a federal election or state election can in fact vote for a municipal election. But the spirit of those different nuances remains same. It's still a human being.

[00:04:16]It's a person.

[00:04:18]A natural person. We got to say natural person now because it can be infused it can be confused with a corporate entity.

[00:04:25]Um as as Romney said, corporations are people, my friend.

[00:04:29]All right, we'll bring you updates as they come.