Posted on 01/23/2017 9:12:26 AM PST by ColdOne
Seattle is offering voters $100 in "democracy vouchers" to donate to political candidates in an effort to limit big money in politics and boost civic involvement in elections.
Earlier this month, the first of the vouchers were mailed out for its inaugural run in citywide races in the fall.
The program is the first of its kind in the country and was supported by nearly two-thirds of voters in King County, Wash., as a ballot measure in 2015. In its run-up to the election, the "Honest Elections" measure, or Initiative 122, was touted as a way to motivate lesser-known candidates to run for office.
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Do you mean "entered"?
Taxpayer money. This is illegal and wrong.
Yes. I tried to send correction...but mobile device not do it yet...maybe i got water on the brain...
It would be funny if they used the money to elect conservatives.
The addled thought process behind this is truly dismaying.
As if it was conceived by persons under the long term influence of cannabis.
More insanity from the Seattlunatics.
I would give the money to the write in candidate. ;-)
Money laundering. Pure and simple.
Remember, that is Seattle. Forget the cigarettes. It’d buy a lot of marijuana and Cheetos.
if they run good candidates they’d proxy hav emote people open to donating.
what they are doing now seems to be trying to force donations just sio they’re percentage of people donating will go up and they can feel better about the increase in people “participating”
Thieves. Lunatics.
Not in my book. First-—where in the Seattle city budget does this appear?
Secondly, IF this is to be called a tax refund or something akin to that, Seattle has absolutely NO power to tell the recipients how they can spend that money,
This is a ripe case for over-reaching by a city—and it belongs in court-—TOMORROW~!!!
Someone in the City Council needs to be on unemployment with a week!!!
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