Search The Directory The Web for Home > Society > Activism > Media > Culture Jamming > Vote_Auctions New! Submit a site   whatUseek Collection Sites (submit a site ):   Give your site great placement in this category in as little as two business days!     whatUseek Directory Site Listings:   ABC News: Personal (Campaign) Finance - Your vote could be worth cash.   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.   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 businessman who bought the domain name.   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.   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.   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 elections.   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 citizens a chance to auction their ballots online.   Jones Issues Warning Against On-line Vote Buying Schemes - Press release from California Secretary of State. "We have an absolute zero tolerance policy for voter fraud in California."   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.com: Democracy for sale - Bid for the vote of one U.S. citizen, now on eBay!   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.   Sioux City Journal: Vote buying becomes more blatant - It's been more than 200 years since George Washington bought alcohol for virtually every voter in his district to win an election... The more things change, the more they remain the same.   Slashdot: Voteauction.com - News and discussion forum.   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 holding down the price of votes.   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 highest bidder.   TheStandard: Net Election: Want to Sell Your Vote? Not So Fast - The Chicago Board of Elections plans to file a lawsuit against Voteauction.com saying the site promotes fraud.     [ 1 2 ] Help build the largest human-edited directory on the web.   Submit a Site - Open Directory Project - Become an Editor

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