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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/voteauction/
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Vote-auction.net
Bringing democracy and capitalism closer together. Founded by James Baumgartner (as
voteauction.com), produced by ubermorgen.com and helped by ®TMark.
http://vote-auction.net/
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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
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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.cnet.com/news/0-1005-200-3664281.html
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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/Economics/00-10-31/Economics.asp
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cluebot.com: Internic Pulls Plug on Vote-Auction.com
News brief and archived discussion.
http://www.cluebot.com/article.pl?sid=00/11/03/1852255&mode=nested
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Wired: Chicago to Sue Vote Auctioneers
Election officials in Chicago are expected to file suit after finding more than 1,000 Illinois
residents have signed up to auction off their presidential votes.
http://www.wired.com/news/politics/0,1283,39431,00.html
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Wired: Voteauction Booth is Closed
The vote buy-and-sell website shuts down after a district court in Illinois slaps it with an
injunction. Accused of illegally trafficking votes, its creator now says the whole thing was a
joke.
http://www.wired.com/news/politics/0,1283,39590,00.html
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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/0,1283,39770,00.html
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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-auction.shtml
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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;sid=2000/11/3/143335/151
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®TMark: Voteauction.com
®TMark page about its investment in Voteauction.com.
http://rtmark.com/voteauction.html
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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/vote_sale/
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Slashdot: Voteauction.com
News and discussion forum.
http://slashdot.org/articles/00/08/17/1459228.shtml
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cluebot.com: Americans Sell Their Votes for $10 Each
If you needed further proof that Americans are disgusted with politics, just check out
Voteauction.com, which allows people to auction off their votes to the highest bidder.
http://www.cluebot.com/article.pl?sid=00/09/29/0524228
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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/0,2227,966,00.html
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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/dailynews/august00/4-081800.html
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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/1/13758.html
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ABC News: Personal (Campaign) Finance
Your vote could be worth cash.
http://abcnews.go.com/sections/politics/DailyNews/cashvotes000818.html
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CNN: Web site offering to sell votes shut down
Voteauction.com, a site that enables citizens to sell their votes, shut down Friday amid legal
questions.
http://www.cnn.com/2000/TECH/computing/08/23/voteauction.shutsdown.idg/
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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/08/24/internet.vote/
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CNN: Constituent puts vote up for sale on eBay
A Maryland voter protesting political corruption vows to hawk his ballot in the 2000 general
election to the highest bidder on the Internet.
http://www.cnn.com/2000/TECH/computing/08/16/internet.vote/
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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/08/18/internet.vote/index.html
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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/jk082300.htm
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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/0,1283,38355,00.html
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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/0,1283,38559,00.html
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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/0,1283,38229,00.html
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Wired: Thousands Sign Up to Sell Votes
Boasting of the more than 6,000 Americans who have signed up to auction off their presidential
votes to the highest bidder -- illegal activity under the laws of every state in the union --
Voteauction is now detailing its plans to begin an outreach campaign.
http://www.wired.com/news/politics/0,1283,38931,00.html
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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/netelection/entries/00-08-23_88646.asp
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FCW: Chicago wants Voteauction gone
The Chicago Board of Election Commissioners said it has asked federal and state attorneys to shut
down a Web site that offers votes to the highest bidder.
http://www.fcw.com/civic/articles/2000/1009/web-vote-10-10-00.asp
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