AuctionWatch: Straight Talk from Voteauction.com
You, the taxpayer who finances the monkey show, now has a chance to partake of the corruption that is politics.
Cape Rock: The Going Rate For A Presidential Vote? $152 on eBay.
Fake news article about eBay vote auction which may have inspired some of the real auctions.
CNN: Constituent puts vote up for sale on eBay
A Maryland voter protesting political corruption vows to hawk his ballot in the 2000 general election to the highest bidder on the Internet.
CNN: Vote-selling Web site to be revived, possibly offshore
An Internet site designed to auction U.S. presidential votes could reopen days after New York authorities convinced its American creator to shut it down, said a maverick Austrian b…
CNN: Web site offering to sell votes shut down
Voteauction.com, a site that enables citizens to sell their votes, shut down Friday amid legal questions.
CNN: Web site offers to sell U.S. presidential votes
A new Web site promises to "bring capitalism and democracy closer together" by auctioning votes in the 2000 presidential election.
Daily Gazette: Web site offering votes for sale draws concern
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute graduate student James Baumgartner says he's doing a service to the country with his new Web site Voteauction.com by encouraging participation in…
Disinformation: Capitol Punishment: Does Voteauction.com Subvert Democracy?
by Alex Burns.
FCW: Chicago wants Voteauction gone
The Chicago Board of Election Commissioners said it has asked federal and state attorneys to shut down a Web site that offers votes to the highest bidder.
FSB: American Cynicism, 101
In the old days, you could rig an election by raising the dead and getting them to the polls. Student James Baumgartner wants to change the rules, by offering disinterested citizen…
kuro5hin.org: Dot com ruled by US law?
Article and forum discussing the implications of InterNIC pulling the European domain vote-auction.com.
News.com: eBay pulls auction for U.S. presidency
With confusion increasing over who will be the 43rd president of the United States, one eBay auctioneer had put the presidency up for bid.
Salon: Will culture-jam for food
The prankster behind the Voteauction.com satire needs your help to pay off his $3,800 legal debt. By Katharine Mieszkowski.
Slate: Buy This Vote! The Web puts democracy on sale
The schemes generated a lot of media attention and some sellers and buyers-the bidding on eBay reached $10,100, and Voteauction found 200 takers in a single day.
Slate: If eBay Ran the Election
In the hypothetical future where all votes are traded on the Internet, it's easy to see how bipartisan collusion would line the pockets of politicians at the expense of voters by h…
The Register: Votes for sale online in the US
Chicago's gangster ridden past has come back to haunt city officials with the appearance of a new website - Voteauction.com, where people can register to sell their vote to the hig…
USA Today: Votes up for auction draw official inquiries
Pranks or not, legal officials and election watchdogs are taking seriously the recent attempts to buy and sell political votes on the Internet.
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