Over 2000 Voted in Record Smashing Turnout!
Last voters wait in line to vote.
The polls have officially closed and the estimated count of those who came out to vote is around 2000, by far the largest turnout for any elections in Crown Heights history.
Over the next hours the ballots will be counted and the tally will be announced when done.
Am Yisroel, Ahavas Yisroel
Another young soul was taken from our midst today (for reasons unknown to us). Please lets take upon ourselves the hachlata to stop speaking & writing loshon horo Regardless of tonight’s results. Its way past due.
This is good, but...
Wow, imagine if we had universal suffrage it would probably three times that amount. If we had such a turnout in REAL elections in September and November, when the results actually count we could make a real difference. If everyone who voted today could bring his wife/children over 18 to vote in real elections, we would probably have over 6000 votes for Crown Heights, and we could start electing some of our own. To put it in perspective, in last years City Council primary election for the 35th Council district (Crown Heights, Fort Greene, Clinton Hill) the turnout was less than 10,000 people. If CH had 6000-7000 voters at the polls, we could make the differences. We really have to start fighting for ourselves and for our interests. We cannot leave to others to fight for us.
why women cant vote: the rebbe said!
the elections are for positions in a religious corporation, not a government position, corporate bylaws can, do and may discriminate, against women in order to establish and control shares in the company that we all are given equally with out needing to pay and receive a stock certificate in order to vote, if that were the case poor people in crown heights would not b able to vote in the elections because the cost would be prohibitively high, as it is now inorder to prevent fraud or corruption of the designers intent, since you must be married or over 30 to vote, or in the case that you are a male, single, over 30 but live in the same house as your father, only ONE male can vote. this clearly exemplifies the intent of the Rebbe, and the Fredika Rebba (both original signers of the corporate by laws in 1944) that families are the share holders of chabad not individuales.
Excited CH resident
I’m so excited to be a resident of Crown Heights, I feel that there are really good days ahead of us. I feel confident w/ people like Shea Hecht ,Meir Spinner and Zaki Tamir at the helm.
NG, CA
Go Noochie!
Heber
i like the picture with Rabbi shmuel heber.
maybe thats why zaki got so many votes
wasn-t clear, now is
Number 3- thank you for clarifying.
awacs
“this clearly exemplifies the intent of the Rebbe, and the Fredika Rebba (both original signers of the corporate by laws in 1944) that families are the share holders of chabad not individuales.”
So, take the case of a widow with six kids, or a lady struggling to raise her brood b/c her husband skipped, or a lady who never married, and possible never will – they should have no voice in the community, right?