Voters Who Swap Their Check for Cash

The Washington Post ^ | Thursday, July 22, 2004 | Rebecca Dana

[yoe]

Michael O'Connor Clarke, a British subject who lives in Canada, will be voting for John Kerry in the presidential election in November. So will Sarah Redman, an Australian citizen and half of a lesbian couple looking to move to the United States but unable to under current immigration laws. And so will Scott Steahl, a sophomore at the University of California at San Diego. Steahl became eligible to vote two years ago, and by the grace of vote-exchanging, he'll do so twice in the fall.

[sharktrager]

Others go about exchanging votes -- or, more accurately, exchanging promises of votes -- in ways that vary from the patently illegal (selling them on private Web logs or on eBay) to the potentially legal (swapping them for other votes in battleground states) to the purposefully sardonic (protesting the influence of corporations).

Nope...not legal.

You do not vote for President, you vote for an elector. To be eligible to vote for that elector, you must reside in that state. Therefore, this vote swap is clearly illegal.

[sharktrager]

Others go about exchanging votes -- or, more accurately, exchanging promises of votes -- in ways that vary from the patently illegal (selling them on private Web logs or on eBay) to the potentially legal (swapping them for other votes in battleground states) to the purposefully sardonic (protesting the influence of corporations).

Nope...not legal.

You do not vote for President, you vote for an elector. To be eligible to vote for that elector, you must reside in that state. Therefore, this vote swap is clearly illegal.

[Robert357]

And the Dem's are push to have felons and illegal aliens allowed to vote. What they can't win legally, they hope to corruptly buy. I use to think that the Dem's were satisfied with having the dead vote, but I guess not anymore.

[freekitty]

Shouldn't this be looked into?

[krb]

Ok, that's funny, but it's not within the bounds of acceptable language here.

[Larry Lucido]

Wow, that post got pulled fast. Let me help:

"I promise to vote for Kerry."

"And I'll still respect you in the morning."

[krb]

Hahahahaha...that's better!

[ridesthemiles]

Nope...not legal.

You do not vote for President, you vote for an elector. To be eligible to vote for that elector, you must reside in that state. Therefore, this vote swap is clearly illegal.
I believe that many "students" who attend school out of their home state register to vote in both locations. They gat an absentee ballot from home, with whatever for a reason, and they register to vote where they attend school.
Allowing students at the U of W in Madison to vote is what turned that city into the liberal mess it is today.
I don't think there is ANY was the local Registrar of Voters could catch this flaw in the system.

[ridesthemiles]

Nope...not legal.

You do not vote for President, you vote for an elector. To be eligible to vote for that elector, you must reside in that state. Therefore, this vote swap is clearly illegal.
I believe that many "students" who attend school out of their home state register to vote in both locations. They get an absentee ballot from home, with whatever for a reason, and they register to vote where they attend school.
Allowing students at the U of W in Madison to vote is what turned that city into the liberal mess it is today.
I don't think there is ANY way the local Registrar of Voters could catch this flaw in the system.