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Trade your vote to help Kerry?


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17-Oct-2004, 04:43 PM #1
Trade your vote to help Kerry?
There is a new website called votepair.org that is making it possible to trade votes with other citizens. In vote-pairing, swing-state progressives whose first instinct might have been to vote for Nader, Cobb or Badnarik are paired with Democrats (and others whose first choice for President is Kerry) in 'safe' states where either Bush or Kerry has a decisive lead. Paired voters can communicate with each other and decide to vote strategically: swing-state participants for Kerry and safe-state participants for Nader, Cobb or Badnarik. As a result, the paired voters' support for progressive third parties is recorded in the popular vote and their preference for Kerry over Bush finds voice in the Electoral College.

I think this shows some desperation, but it could have some influence in states where a few hundred votes could deliver a state.
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17-Oct-2004, 11:43 PM #2
Not sure what you are saying? A vote can be traded for Kerry for Nafer?
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18-Oct-2004, 12:51 AM #3
That's where you say "heh heh heh...sucker." and vote for your own candidate anyway.

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18-Oct-2004, 11:00 AM #4
lame thread

FOR ME TO POOP ON!
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18-Oct-2004, 11:48 AM #5
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lame thread

FOR ME TO POOP ON!
If any one would know a lame thread when they see one, you would be it. You are the LAMEmaster of lame threads!
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18-Oct-2004, 11:50 AM #6
Novel idea.......trusting people you never met
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If any one would know a lame thread when they see one, you would be it. You are the LAMEmaster of lame threads!
Hehe!
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18-Oct-2004, 12:11 PM #8
LMAO
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18-Oct-2004, 12:21 PM #9
I don't know if this has been done in an election like this before, but I know that it has been done in another, less important example: the "Eye of Terror" Campaign run by Games Workshop.

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However in this campaign the number of wins in total did not decide the control of planets. Rather the co-ordinated posting of wins at weak points and important targets with the aim of pushing down the Imperial Control values was the aim.
Sound similar?

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19-Oct-2004, 12:00 AM #10
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lame thread

FOR ME TO POOP ON!
LMAO!... really, I laughed out loud at this one, for good or ill, It made me laugh; thanks. Very funny.

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19-Oct-2004, 12:03 AM #11
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Novel idea.......trusting people you never met
...you mean like say, Presidential or Congressional candidates?

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19-Oct-2004, 12:04 AM #12
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...I think this shows some desperation, but it could have some influence in states where a few hundred votes could deliver a state.
I think it reminds me of P.T. Barnum, and something he said about "a sucker every minute"?

I'm with Alex on this one, I'm pretty skeptical, but the idea does sound interesting.

thanks,
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19-Oct-2004, 05:13 AM #13
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...you mean like say, Presidential or Congressional candidates?

thanks,
J

Yes.............................
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19-Oct-2004, 09:27 AM #14
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I think it reminds me of P.T. Barnum, and something he said about "a sucker every minute"?

I'm with Alex on this one, I'm pretty skeptical, but the idea does sound interesting.

thanks,
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Just trivia, but it wasn't P.T. Barnum that said that.

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P. T. Barnum is most often associated with the circus sideshow and the display of freaks. While this is true, he is also the founding force behind one of America's most famous circuses: Barnum & Bailey Circus. Barnum is also affiliated with the famous quote "There's a sucker born every minute." History, unfortunately, has misdirected this quotation. Barnum never did say it. Actually, it was said by his competitor. Here's the incredible story.

From 1866 until 1868 Mr. George Hull, of Binghamton, New York studied archeology and paleontology...................
for the rest of the story, go to the following:

http://www.historybuff.com/library/refbarnum.html
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