Posted on 09/13/2004 1:11:22 PM PDT by tigerteam_ab
Hi,
I just signed up for the VOTE or NOT Challenge. The challenge is to raise awareness and get as many of our friends and family to participate in the Election. The 2000 Election was decided by about 500 votes, so all our votes matter!! This year's election may be just as close.
If you sign up for the challenge, you also get entered into a sweepstakes to win $100,000, and if you refer the winner to the challenge (like I'm doing right now), you get $100,000 too. In other words, if you join and win, we BOTH get $100,000. They're doing this to encourage us to spread the word fast, because the voter registration deadline is coming up soon.
Please sign up, when you join they will let me know so I'll know I don't have to email you about this anymore. It takes less than a minute to do, so sign up now for the challenge through my referral link:
http://dm312z2.VOTEorNOT.org
If you still need to register to vote, you can do it online at http://VOTEorNOT.org/register.php
Thanks!
Don't let this prize money fall into the hands of some Emily's List donating liberals, tell your conservative friends now! ;)
I always thought that voter turnout would be huge if you combined voting with the lottery. One vote, one chance to win!
Folks, Republicans are out-registered by about 2 to 1 in some areas. The only thing that saves the day on 'election day', is that democrat voters don't show up to vote. Think about it! Which side does a large turn-out help?
I'm not urging anyone to vote. Conservatives vote their concience. Liberals are the only ones that need to be paid to get out the vote.
Don't urge others to vote unless you damned well which way they are voting.
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Sincerely
Vote or Not
Sorry, I couldn't resist. :)
Conservatives don't need money. We are all rich and always vote.
I would be very afraid of an electorate equal to the union of "the set of all people who wish to vote" and "the set of all people who play the lottery".
Four MILLION evangelical Christians didn't vote in 2000 (http://www.townhall.com/columnists/douggiles/dg20040911.shtml). I'm going to go out on a limb and guess that if they had, they would have overwhelmingly voted for Bush, for conservative congressman, for ballot measures that support conservative values, and against measures that don't.
"Don't urge others to vote unless you damned well which way they are voting."
Agreed.
From their "privacy rules"
"In most cases, we do not intentionally transfer this information to unaffiliated third parties without your consent."
Now just who are the "affiliated" parties that they will intentionally transfer your info to ?
How much ( well, can't call it spam anymore since you signed up for it ) will you get ?
These guys are making money somehow....
Hmm, I have heard the lottery called the "idiot tax" (though I will admit to having bought a handful of tickets myself over the years ;).
Yeah, that's all we need. The majority of lottery players are low-income & low-IQ (that's why they call state lotteries "a tax on the poor & the stupid"). So we'd get millions of people from society's bottom-end packing the voter's booths (probably multiple times), not because they understand the issues and want to make positive changes in how we are governed, but for a shot at getting rich quick.
Increasing voter turnout is unimportant. What's important is getting people well-informed and sufficiently involved in our government. Voting should be somewhat difficult, not made less difficult (e.g., Clinton's "Motor Voter" law); it certainly should never be financially rewarded. If people are too complacent to register or make it to the polls once or twice a year (for the right reasons), then they are surely too complacent to spend the time and mental energy understanding the issues.
Or is all that too un-Politically Correct for you?
Obviously, you guys are correct. My only observation is that voter turnout would be huge, not that it would be desireable.
"Hmm, I have heard the lottery called the "idiot tax"
I'ts really just a tax on the poor - give them hope to buy a ticket and 50% of it goes to the State...
A Big Dang DITTO to that!
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