A new lawsuit filed by the American Civil Liberties Union of Delaware claims Fenwick Island is violating the state constitution by allowing corporations to vote in municipal elections - and recent elections may have been decided by those votes.

Fenwick Island is a tiny town of half a square mile and less than 400 people, situated on the Atlantic Ocean on the southeastern corner of Delaware. Its town charter allows corporations, partnerships, trusts and limited liability companies to vote in municipal elections.

“The bedrock principle of American elections is one person, one vote,” the ACLU complaint says, and the Delaware Constitution prohibits “non-human artificial entities” from casting ballots in Delaware elections, the complaint says.