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A new Web site promises to "bring capitalism and democracy closer together" by auctioning votes in the 2000 presidential election.

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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.

• Wired: Close Vote? You Can Bid on It - If citizens do indeed find the choice between Gush and media Bore meaningless, the proprietors of Voteauction.com say, why not at media least make a little cash on the side?
• kuro5hin.org: Dot com ruled by US law? - Article and forum discussing the implications of InterNIC pulling the European domain vote-auction.com.
• Slate: If eBay Ran the Election - In the hypothetical future where all votes are vote auctions traded vote auctions on the Internet, it\\'s easy to see vote auctions how bipartisan vote auctions collusion would line the pockets of vote auctions politicians at the vote auctions expense of voters by holding vote auctions down the price of vote auctions votes.
• Disinformation: Capitol Punishment: Does Voteauction.com Subvert Democracy? - by Alex Burns.
• News.com: eBay pulls auction for U.S. presidency - With confusion increasing over who will be the 43rd president vote auctions of the United States, one eBay auctioneer had put the vote auctions presidency up for bid.
• AuctionWatch: Straight Talk from Voteauction.com - You, the taxpayer who finances the monkey show, now has culture jamming a chance to partake of the corruption that is politics.
• Slate: Buy This Vote! The Web puts democracy on sale - The schemes generated a lot of media attention culture jamming and some sellers and buyers-the bidding on eBay culture jamming reached $10,100, and Voteauction found 200 takers in culture jamming a single day.
• Salon.com: Democracy for sale - Bid for the vote of one U.S. citizen, vote auctions now on eBay!
• Wired: Voteauction Bids the Dust - Last week, Voteauction received a spate of publicity media that began with a Wired News story. Two media days of intense press and Internet attention followed, media which concluded in legal threats that compelled its media operator to shut it down.
• 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.
• ®TMark: Voteauction.com - ®TMark page about its investment in Voteauction.com.
• CNN: Constituent puts vote up for sale on eBay - A Maryland voter protesting political corruption vows to vote auctions hawk his ballot in the 2000 general election vote auctions to the highest bidder on the Internet.
• The Register: Votes for sale online in the US - Chicago\\'s gangster ridden past has come back to vote auctions haunt media city officials with the appearance of a vote auctions new website media - Voteauction.com, where people can register vote auctions to sell their media vote to the highest bidder.
• CNN: Web site offers to sell U.S. presidential votes - A new Web site promises to "bring capitalism and democracy media closer together" by auctioning votes in the 2000 presidential election.
• Daily Gazette: Web site offering votes for sale draws concern - Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute graduate student James Baumgartner says vote auctions he\\'s doing a service to the country with his new vote auctions Web site Voteauction.com by encouraging participation in elections.
• Wired: Selling Votes or Peddling Lies? - Did Voteauction.com really solicit bids on American votes, vote auctions or was it all a mirage? The owner vote auctions says yes, while the site\\'s creator says no. vote auctions A judge will decide.
• Wired: Austrian Takes Bids on U.S. Votes - Voteauction.com has changed owners as well as modus vote auctions operandi. vote auctions And this time, it appears, the prospect vote auctions of squelching vote auctions the wrongdoing is going to involve vote auctions more than a vote auctions threatening phone call.
• Slashdot: Voteauction.com - News and discussion forum.
• CNN: Vote-selling Web site to be revived, possibly offshore - An Internet site designed to auction U.S. presidential vote auctions votes vote auctions could reopen days after New York authorities vote auctions convinced its vote auctions American creator to shut it down, vote auctions said a maverick vote auctions Austrian businessman who bought the vote auctions domain name.
• CNN: Web site offering to sell votes shut down - Voteauction.com, a site that enables citizens to sell culture jamming their culture jamming votes, shut down Friday amid legal questions.

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