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TheStandard: Voteauction to Lose Domain Name - After a court defeat in Illinois, the site that enables people to sell their presidential votes faces a shutdown.

TheStandard: Wanna Buy My Vote? Fuhgeddaboutit - Voteauction.com, a site that enables citizens to sell their votes, shut down Friday amid legal questions.

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.

UpsideToday: Vote-auction.com rises again - That scrappy voter auction website that has riled America's pollsters skirted yet another siege by U.S. legal critics Wednesday re-emerging under a new domain after the site's latest address, Vote-auction.com, once again was shut down by authorities.

VIP: Going, Going... Gone! - According to the Voting Integrity Project, "This website is an INSULT to every American who has ever fought to protect our freedom or for the right to vote in America!"

Vote-auction.net - Bringing democracy and capitalism closer together. Founded by James Baumgartner (as voteauction.com), produced by ubermorgen.com and helped by ®TMark.

Wired: Selling Votes or Peddling Lies? - Did Voteauction.com really solicit bids on American votes, or was it all a mirage? The owner says yes, while the site's creator says no. A judge will decide.

Wired: Austrian Takes Bids on U.S. Votes - Voteauction.com has changed owners as well as modus operandi. And this time, it appears, the prospect of squelching the wrongdoing is going to involve more than a threatening phone call.

Wired: Chicago to Sue Vote Auctioneers - Election officials in Chicago are expected to file suit after finding more than 1,000 Illinois residents have signed up to auction off their presidential votes.

Wired: Close Vote? You Can Bid on It - If citizens do indeed find the choice between Gush and Bore meaningless, the proprietors of Voteauction.com say, why not at least make a little cash on the side?

Wired: Thousands Sign Up to Sell Votes - Boasting of the more than 6,000 Americans who have signed up to auction off their presidential votes to the highest bidder -- illegal activity under the laws of every state in the union -- Voteauction is now detailing its plans to begin an outreach campaign.

Wired: Voteauction Bids the Dust - Last week, Voteauction received a spate of publicity that began with a Wired News story. Two days of intense press and Internet attention followed, which concluded in legal threats that compelled its operator to shut it down.

Wired: Voteauction Booth is Closed - The vote buy-and-sell website shuts down after a district court in Illinois slaps it with an injunction. Accused of illegally trafficking votes, its creator now says the whole thing was a joke.

cluebot.com: Americans Sell Their Votes for $10 Each - If you needed further proof that Americans are disgusted with politics, just check out Voteauction.com, which allows people to auction off their votes to the highest bidder.

cluebot.com: Internic Pulls Plug on Vote-Auction.com - News brief and archived discussion.

kuro5hin.org: Dot com ruled by US law? - Article and forum discussing the implications of InterNIC pulling the European domain vote-auction.com.

®TMark: Voteauction.com - ®TMark page about its investment in Voteauction.com.

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