I’m pretty sure that I’ve never called for the impeachment of a sitting federal judge, so I’m putting Federal Judge Stephen Robinson at the top of the list. Robinson decided that because an area of New York wasn’t electing Hispanic candidates, each voter should be allowed to vote six times and up to five days before the election. I’m serious.

Have we really reached the point now where the electoral system is being rigged so as to help ensure the election of candidates of a certain race? Apparently so. If the voters won’t elect an Hispanic candidate on their own, well, we must change the system so an Hispanic candidate gets elected. Because we have quotas to meet.

Arthur Furano voted early — five days before Election Day. And he voted often, flipping the lever six times for his favorite candidate. Furano cast multiple votes on the instructions of a federal judge and the U.S. Department of Justice as part of a new election system crafted to help boost Hispanic representation.

Voters in Port Chester, 25 miles northeast of New York City, are electing village trustees for the first time since the federal government alleged in 2006 that the existing election system was unfair. The election ends Tuesday and results are expected late Tuesday.

Although the village of about 30,000 residents is nearly half Hispanic, no Latino had ever been elected to any of the six trustee seats, which until now were chosen in a conventional at-large election. Most voters were white, and white candidates always won.

The federal government wanted the municipality divided into six districts so voters could elect more local representatives. That’s a pretty common sense solution, and I doubt many would object.

But Judge Robinson didn’t like that proposal. Instead:

Federal Judge Stephen Robinson said that violated the Voting Rights Act, and he approved a remedy suggested by village officials: a system called cumulative voting, in which residents get six votes each to apportion as they wish among the candidates. He rejected a government proposal to break the village into six districts, including one that took in heavily Hispanic areas.

What’s the purpose?

On Tuesday, Candida Sandoval voted at the Don Bosco Center, where a soup kitchen and day-laborer hiring center added to the activity, and where federal observers watched the voting from a table in the corner.

“I hope that if Hispanics get in, they do something for all the Hispanic people,” Sandoval said in Spanish. “I don’t know, but I hope so.”…

The village held 12 forums — six each in English and Spanish — to let voters know about the new system and to practice voting. The bilingual ballot lists each candidate across the top row — some of them twice if they have two party lines — and then the same candidates are listed five more times. In all, there are 114 levers; voters can flip any six.

Question One: What don’t the voters speak English? I’m just brainstorming here, but perhaps voters should be able to speak the national language. Seeing as how, um, it’s the national language. So um…the voters should consider learning it.

Question Two: How is this not racist? Because it’s not targeted at overriding the voting power of minorities but instead the white population? But hey, that’s affirmative action every day of the week. It’s just scary to see the policy hitting the electoral system.

Question Three: How long before the policy is implemented on a national level? After all, that evil white population might take away the minority population’s voice by voting out Barack Obama. Can’t have that now.