The cheap ones could be bought for beer...Those brazen days are gone.
Nobody told Michael Moore. You heard how his film ends with the slogan "DO SOMETHING". Here is what Miserable Failure suggests on his website: Buy votes for Kerry.
http://www.michaelmoore.com/takeaction/vote/pledge.php
Pick five of the people you know who probably aren't going to vote. Acknowledge their despair and cynicism. Don't try to talk them out of it. But gently give them pieces of information over the next few months.This does not appear to be satirical. There is no disclaimer. I've posted this information as its own thread and sent it to Drudge but it went nowhere.And then make a plan for Election Day. Take them out to vote and out to lunch (you pick up the tab!). Or have a party that night for those who voted that day.
Or get more creative. Offer a six-pack to anyone in the office who votes (make sure you're not working in cubicles full of Republicans!). Promise to have sex with a nonvoter - whatever it takes!
Here's another attempt at brokering for votes:
They claim it is a "joke" and not binding but they want people to sign a pledge. That makes it a document, how binding it is would be decided by the courts. Looks like they may have been investigated (after getting a lot of press) as they are no longer online (and I checked the web address with a couple of articles).
The left got caught in 2000 trying to trade votes for Ralph Nader for Algore Jr. votes (a claim was made that if Naderites would support Gore in battleground states, a Goron would vote for Nader in a secure state).
Thank you, your post is illuminating. After every election we hear whispers about voter fraud. But, I think 2000 put a new face on the issue.
Losing votes, dead people voting, felons voting. I am sure there are more, but, the more I consider this the more my head aches!
OK will add one more, folks giving their vote for a pack of cigarettes.
What has this country come to?
BTW, thank you for the links, I so appreciate your effort.