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Sell your vote
Keyword: activistic + strategic
Posted by Sebastian on Dec 27, 2004

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Sellthevote.com is a website that mediates contact between U.S voters who wish to sell their electoral votes and citizens in other countries who wish to buy them.

The concept is developed by Austrian art-activist www.ubermorgen.com who is known for a similar project in the past called Voteauction, which offered US citizens to sell their presidential vote to the highest bidder during the Presidential Elections 2000.

Back then, several US States issued temporary restraining orders or injunctions for alleged illegal vote trading. This led to the shutdown of 2 domains (voteauction.com and vote-auction.com).

In 2000, CNN asked the makers of Voteauction: "Why on earth are you europeans intervening in a U.S. election?", Voteauction replied: "Because the U.S. President has the power and the means to change the face of the world, so the world should have the democratic power to elect the U.S. President."

In 2004, this proposition became real with the website www.sellthevote.com and U.S. voters were now able to sell their votes to citizens of any country of the world wanting to democratically influence the U.S. presidential elections 2004, Kerry vs Bush.

sellthevote.com/

Comments (1)


ubermorgen wrote:

http://www.vote-auction.net/

Date: Oct 13, 2008.

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