• infectoid@lemmy.world
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      1 year ago

      Sydney, Australia.

      They let business owners in the city vote in local elections. That includes anyone with an investment property in the city of Sydney boundary.

      The change was brought in to get rid of the existing mayor. Funny thing is it didn’t work. Turned out most residents and businesses thought she was doing good job. She’s been the mayor since 2004.

  • Rakn@discuss.tchncs.de
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    1 year ago

    Well that’s not fair. The vote should at least be weighted proportionally to the number of people the company employs.

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    Eh, seems like other towns in Delaware have already been doing it without incident. Doesn’t seem too outrageous to me. They’re giving people who live out of town but own businesses in town a vote in the town’s elections. Why not?

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      You’ve seen how Citizen United has led to a deluge of corporate influence on politics right? And you are not sure what the issue could be with allowing Corporations to vote? How about we just skip all these middle steps and just allow the corporations to be elected directly into public office? I’m sure they’ll have the average citizens interests at heart.

    • MountingSuspicion@reddthat.com
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      Because those people are now getting additional votes that affect an area in which they do not live. If I’m a business owner and just need employees with minimal education, what is my incentive to increase taxes to pay for education? At least if I lived there an argument could be made that my family or neighborhood would be affected. Who’s voting to increase minimum wage, or engage in conservation and beautification? Not the businesses. Having more money (to start a business or have investment properties) should not equal more votes. It already equals larger sway on elections. Why not just cut to the chase and have an out and out oligarchy?

      The article itself mentions that there are almost as many businesses as there are people voting. This will not result in elections being the “will of the people.”