An open letter to the President & U.S. Congress; State Governors & Legislatures

Block Corporate Voting Rights Before They Spread Beyond Delaware

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A Delaware Superior Court just ruled that corporations can vote in municipal elections. Judge Craig Karsnitz decided that letting legal entities cast ballots in Fenwick Island doesn't dilute human votes. That reasoning is dangerous, and I need you to act before this spreads. Corporations have no allegiances to this country. They don't serve in the military, pay into Social Security, or bear any of the civic obligations that come with citizenship. The entire legal foundation for treating them as persons traces back to a fraudulent 1886 court clerk's headnote in Santa Clara County v. Southern Pacific Railroad — a non-binding annotation that was never an actual ruling. That fraud metastasized into Buckley v. Valeo, Bellotti, and Citizens United. Now it's handing corporations literal votes. The 14th Amendment was ratified in 1868 to liberate formerly enslaved people. It was never meant to enfranchise corporations. Introduce or co-sponsor federal legislation that explicitly prohibits corporations and other non-human legal entities from voting in any U.S. election at any level of government. Delaware has opened a door that cannot be left open.

▶ Created on May 30 by Eric

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