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®TMark: Voteauction.com
®TMark page about its investment in Voteauction.com.
http://rtmark.com/voteauction.html
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.
http://www.wired.com/news/politics/0,1283,...
Salon.com: Democracy for sale
Bid for the vote of one U.S. citizen, now on eBay!
http://www.salon.com/tech/log/2000/08/17/v...
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.
http://www.auctionwatch.com/awdaily/dailyn...
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.
http://www.fsb.com/fortunesb/articles/0,22...
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.
http://slate.msn.com/id/88646/
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.
http://slate.msn.com/id/92292/
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.
http://the.facts.tripod.com/dg000819.htm
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.
http://www.usatoday.com/life/cyber/tech/jk...
Constituent puts vote up for sale on eBay
[CNN]
http://www.cnn.com/2000/TECH/computing/08/...
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.
http://www.thecaperock.com/apr00/vote-auct...
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.
http://www.wired.com/news/politics/0,1283,...
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.
http://www.salon.com/tech/log/2001/05/18/v...
Slashdot: Voteauction.com
News and discussion forum.
http://slashdot.org/articles/00/08/17/1459...
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.
http://news.com.com/2100-1023-248517.html
Web site offering to sell votes shut down
[CNN]
http://www.cnn.com/2000/TECH/computing/08/...
Disinformation: Capitol Punishment: Does Voteauction.com Subvert Democracy?
by Alex Burns.
http://www.disinfo.com/archive/pages/dossi...
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.
http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/1/137...
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?
http://www.wired.com/news/politics/0,1283,...
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.
http://www.cnn.com/2000/TECH/computing/08/...
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.
http://www.wired.com/news/politics/0,1283,...
kuro5hin.org: Dot com ruled by US law?
Article and forum discussing the implications of InterNIC pulling the European domain vote-auction.com.
http://www.kuro5hin.org/?op=displaystory;s...
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.
http://www.cnn.com/2000/TECH/computing/08/...
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