This seems like it would be so easy to game, the way it’s written the “owner” of the business gets the right to vote, and the business has to have a physical presence in the town.
It would be trivial to buy a small building in town and have it jointly owned by multiple LLCs, or lease portions of the building to multiple LLCs to manufacture votes.
The intent of the law isn’t even necessarily bad. If you have a small business in the town but you live just outside it, it does seem like you should still have some say in town politics. But there’s little chance that this won’t be systematically abused.
The population of Seaford, Delaware is around 6k people. It’s small enough that this can be personally audited. The administrators will notice if a bunch of random LLCs pop up that they’ve never heard of. If they’re all registered under the same guy, then it’ll be doubly obvious what is going on. This could very well go through and be a pretty minor change.
Should it go through? No. The proper avenue would be to say if you live or work in Seaford you can vote. Giving the right to vote to out-of-town owners but not out-of-town employees is harmful.
