What the heck is up with this?

Originally Posted by xoxoxoBruce

OK, I misunderstood how this works. They give everybody 6 votes, not just some people. So they went from one man, one vote, to one man, six votes.


I still don't like it, but I'm less incensed.
The hispanics make up nearly half the 30,000 population, and the top 6 of 13 candidates get elected. Sounds to me like they never elected one before because they weren't trying very fucking hard. I also suspect they elected one of the two running, because of...

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I think you still misunderstand.

Previously, all voters cast as many votes as there were seats up for election (2 or 3), but voters could only give one vote to each candidate.....

http://portchestervotes.com/

Thus, even if Hispanic turnout was the same percentage ("trying just as hard") as White turnout, the likelihood of a Hispanic winning one of the seats was very low.

Under the new system, all 6 seats were up for election at the same time and voters could cast multiple votes (up to 6) for one candidate, so if Hispanics rallied around one candidate, the likelihood of election increased...and that is what happened.