Faze? Are you still with us?

October 20, 2004 10:06 AM

Some time ago Faze asked if it was legal to sell your vote. Apparently he wasn't the only one thinking of this.
posted by Steve_at_Linnwood (14 comments total)

Thank you, Steve@L, for bringing this particular masterpiece of idiocy to our attention! My jaw has dropped into the basement.
posted by Sidhedevil at 10:11 AM on October 20, 2004

We're talking about the idiocy of someone trying to make a political statement by selling a vote on eBay, right?
posted by esch at 10:19 AM on October 20, 2004

Yes. That would be the idiocy in question. Also when the guy said "I didn't know it would be illegal".

The FPP is a masterpiece of finding crazy stuff on the internet, for which I applaud S@L.
posted by Sidhedevil at 10:33 AM on October 20, 2004

"I bristled. All of us have family, men who fought in Iraq and other wars over this kind of thing. The idea of diluting somebody's right to vote is ridiculous," Bellamy said.

I really hope we win the war in Iraq, because I really want to vote this year.
posted by cell divide at 10:42 AM on October 20, 2004

And if we'd won the war in Vietnam, we might have even had a choice of decent candidates.
posted by Sidhedevil at 10:45 AM on October 20, 2004

isn't Missouri solidly Republican? the guy doesn't even live in a swing State
posted by matteo at 10:54 AM on October 20, 2004

Hey, you can always let the NAACP pay you in crack to fake voter registrations.

It's got tobe better than ebay.
posted by soulhuntre at 10:59 AM on October 20, 2004

I thought Missouri was pretty swingish. That might have changed, though. (Maybe I should pay more attention to the polls.)
posted by chicobangs at 11:13 AM on October 20, 2004

Wait a minute, the NAACP didn't pay anybody in crack--some sub-sub-contractor on an NAACP sponsored project claimed to have paid someone in cocaine.

But it was much freepier the way you put it, after all, because you know those Colored People are all about the crack!
posted by Sidhedevil at 11:13 AM on October 20, 2004

AND THE WHITE WOMEN!
posted by matteo at 11:55 AM on October 20, 2004

(I understand they're communists, too)
posted by matteo at 11:56 AM on October 20, 2004

Our right to vote was bought by the blood of our veterans and it's priceless," prosecutor Page Bellamy said.

...as he shredded another handful of democratic registration cards.
posted by quonsar at 12:21 PM on October 20, 2004

Okay...I can't auction off my vote but as an undecided voter can I auction an hour of my time where I will listen as the winner attempts to persuade me in either direction?
posted by sexymofo at 1:02 PM on October 20, 2004

Hey don't drag me into this. I wouldn't sell my vote if you paid me.
posted by Faze at 1:18 PM on October 20, 2004