Delaware bill (HB 121) to allow corporations to vote in elections

Re:Delaware bill (HB 121) to allow corporations to vote in e... by screwturner68 on Wednesday June 21, 2023 @09:24PM (#36426983)

I've been wondering about this for a while. Since we know corporations are people my friend and have all the rights or a person what should stop them from voting. I assume that if pressed a corporation that is 18 years old should be allowed to vote, there's nothing in the constitution prohibiting it. Knowing the current group of yokels in the SC I'm sure we'd see a 6-3 vote codifying the voting rights of a corporation.

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Re:Delaware bill (HB 121) to allow corporations to vote in e... by ddingus on Wednesday June 21, 2023 @09:31PM (#36427022)

Corporations are not people. They are constructs.

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Re:Delaware bill (HB 121) to allow corporations to vote in e... by zzzeek on Wednesday June 21, 2023 @09:53PM (#36427126)

Parent commenter was very deftly referring to an infamous quote by Mitt Romney.

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Re:Delaware bill (HB 121) to allow corporations to vote in e... by ddingus on Wednesday June 21, 2023 @10:12PM (#36427237)

Got it

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Re:Delaware bill (HB 121) to allow corporations to vote in e... by dragonwriter on Friday June 23, 2023 @10:24PM (#36454849)

Corporations are legal persons, but they aren’t natural persons but instead vehicles for actions by natural persons. Granting them voting rights effectively is just granting additional voting rights for the people that control them in proportion of their control, making them effectively a form of selective electoral inequality (and, insofar as as there are government-imposed costs on having a corporation, a form of poll taxes.)

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Re:Delaware bill (HB 121) to allow corporations to vote in e... by ddingus on Friday June 30, 2023 @11:25AM (#36536639)

Yes, I think I agree.

However, the idea of a construct being deemed a person makes no sense given how we define what a person is.

Further, having essentially broken that definition, we have opened the door for all sorts of crazy legal things to happen! Anything can be a person. Anything can be anything, taken to extremes.

In addition to voting issues you mention, having the corporation as person means some of us have agency others do not due to how we operate companies. The owners have a shield for all sorts of otherwise expensive and risky behavior. Great as well as evil actions are possible, affordable and it is not necessary we allow these things.

I see it as very harmful.

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Re:Delaware bill (HB 121) to allow corporations to vote in e... by mellavora on Wednesday June 21, 2023 @10:46PM (#36427441)

And one day we'll even let them drive cars!

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Re:Delaware bill (HB 121) to allow corporations to vote in e... by screwturner68 on Friday June 23, 2023 @12:28PM (#36449105)

I mean isn't that what we have with a self-driving car? Who do you sue when that car plows into a group of nuns that the algorithm mistook as a black hole? Who's the driver, the passenger sitting in the left front seat or the company with shitty code?

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Re:Delaware bill (HB 121) to allow corporations to vote in e... by Ekaros on Thursday June 22, 2023 @03:12AM (#36428945)

Could they be drafted? It would be very efficient way to increase number of combatants if you could just draft a company and send the board+employees to war front...

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