The End of Even Pseudo-Democracy By Chris Knight

Forget about electoral fraud, that could well be a thing of the past if another vocal academic proclaims.

https://www.zerohedge.com/political/law-prof-advocates-black-americans-votes-count-twice

“Washington and Lee University assistant law professor Brandon Hasbrouck says Black Americans and Native Americans should be able to vote twice as a cheaper form of reparations.

Claiming that "Black votes in this country are worth less than White votes," Hasbrouck wrote in an op-ed for The Nation, "Joe Biden won the Electoral College because Black voters in Atlanta, Detroit, Milwaukee, and Philadelphia turned out in significant numbers. But even with overwhelming Black support - a 94 percent of Detroit voted for Biden! - the outcomes in Georgia, Michigan, Wisconsin, and Pennsylvania were worryingly close."

Hasbrouck said these "reparations" should extend to Native Americans as well.

"Slavery is rightly called America’s original sin, but so too was the United States’ genocidal seizure of land from its original inhabitants. Various legal forms of disenfranchisement have applied to them," he said.

The appropriate response to the "core problem" of "structurally racist political institutions" like the electoral college, he said, is to "implement vote reparations by double-counting ballots cast by all Black residents."

Washington and Lee University promoted Hasbrouck's op-ed on its official website.

"One of the largest objections to monetary reparations is the impracticality of implementing them on a scale that would meaningfully address the injustices. Vote reparations, in contrast, would be a simple, low-cost way to begin to make amends,' Hasbrouck wrote.

"Because White votes currently count more than Black ones, double-counting Black votes would restore electoral balance. Vote reparations would be a giant step toward remedying our nation’s long history of denying and devaluing Black votes," he continued.

"To address systemic racism, we must transform how we choose our government. Even if vote reparations aren’t instituted, Black voters will keep tirelessly dragging our states toward a more perfect union. But just imagine our country if our votes counted twice,' he concluded.”

This raises the interesting question of how many votes mixed race people get, like a mixed White/Black … perhaps 1.5?