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• Regional: North America: United States: Government: Elections: Presidential: 2000  (338)
• Regional: North America: United States: Government: Elections: Presidential: 2000: Vote Swapping  (10)
• Society: Politics: Campaigns and Elections: Election Reform: Campaign Finance  (36)

• Vote-auction.net   - Bringing democracy and capitalism closer together. Founded by James Baumgartner (as voteauction.com), produced by ubermorgen.com and helped by ®TMark.

• ®TMark: Voteauction.com - ®TMark page about its investment in Voteauction.com.

• Salon: Will culture-jam for food - The prankster behind the Voteauction.com satire needs your help to pay off his $3,800 legal debt. By Katharine Mieszkowski. (May 18, 2001)
• 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. (November 13, 2000)
• cluebot.com: Internic Pulls Plug on Vote-Auction.com - News brief and archived discussion. (November 3, 2000)
• kuro5hin.org: Dot com ruled by US law? - Article and forum discussing the implications of InterNIC pulling the European domain vote-auction.com. (November 3, 2000)
• UpsideToday: Vote-auction.com rises again - That scrappy voter auction website that has riled America's pollsters skirted yet another siege by U.S. legal critics Wednesday re-emerging under a new domain after the site's latest address, Vote-auction.com, once again was shut down by authorities. (November 2, 2000)
• 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. (October 31, 2000)
• 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. (October 30, 2000)
• 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. (October 23, 2000)
• 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. (October 21, 2000)
• TheStandard: Voteauction to Lose Domain Name - After a court defeat in Illinois, the site that enables people to sell their presidential votes faces a shutdown. (October 19, 2000)
• TheStandard: Net Election: Want to Sell Your Vote? Not So Fast - The Chicago Board of Elections plans to file a lawsuit against Voteauction.com saying the site promotes fraud. (October 13, 2000)
• 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. (October 12, 2000)
• 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. (October 10, 2000)
• 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. (September 29, 2000)
• 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. (September 22, 2000)
• 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. (September 6, 2000)
• Sioux City Journal: Vote buying becomes more blatant - It's been more than 200 years since George Washington bought alcohol for virtually every voter in his district to win an election... The more things change, the more they remain the same. (August 28, 2000)
• 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. (August 25, 2000)
• 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. (August 23, 2000)
• 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. (August 23, 2000)
• 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. (August 23, 2000)
• Jones Issues Warning Against On-line Vote Buying Schemes - Press release from California Secretary of State. "We have an absolute zero tolerance policy for voter fraud in California." (August 22, 2000)
• 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. (August 22, 2000)
• TheStandard: Wanna Buy My Vote? Fuhgeddaboutit - Voteauction.com, a site that enables citizens to sell their votes, shut down Friday amid legal questions. (August 21, 2000)
• VIP: Going, Going... Gone! - According to the Voting Integrity Project, "This website is an INSULT to every American who has ever fought to protect our freedom or for the right to vote in America!" (August 21, 2000)
• ABC News: Personal (Campaign) Finance - Your vote could be worth cash. (August 20, 2000)
• 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. (August 19, 2000)
• 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. (August 18, 2000)
• 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. (August 18, 2000)
• Salon.com: Democracy for sale - Bid for the vote of one U.S. citizen, now on eBay! (August 17, 2000)
• Slashdot: Voteauction.com - News and discussion forum. (August 17, 2000)
• 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? (August 17, 2000)
• 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. (August 16, 2000)
• 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. (May 10, 2000)
• 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. (April 1, 2000)

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