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Will you give up your right to vote for $$$$?

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Will you give up your right to vote for $$$$?

  • Yes

  • No, but I might if the money is higher.

  • No, it will be bad for the long term.

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People already give up their votes without any incentive. Why should we waste more of my tax dollars for this?

For the record I'm a young conservative in CA and I always vote.
 
DaveStall said:
Damn there's a lot of non voters in here. I'm surprised honestly.
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I'm honestly surprised that so many people do vote. The choice is between a guy who claims to be looking out for the rich, but is only looking out for himself and a guy who claims to be looking out for the poor, but is only looking out for himself. Or you can vote for a 3rd party who claims he's not part of the establishment and wants to take care of real people, but is only looking out for himself.

Show me a person worth voting for and I'll vote. Toss up the same collection of whores who will say whatever the people funding their campaign wants them to say and I'll keep staying home.
 
I agree with you to some degree about the candidates. However it is the ballot initiatives and bond issues that really interest me. Voting on those issues really does matter....especially if you're a property owner.
 
NutBucket said:
People already give up their votes without any incentive. Why should we waste more of my tax dollars for this?

For the record I'm a young conservative in CA and I always vote.
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Instead of a parrot avatar, your's should be an extinct bird. 😉
 
$1000 is not near enough. Realistically I would need $1m per election, but I would want 500m+ so I could vote/lobby with my money.
 
Sure, go ahead and take the $1000. Then 2 weeks later, the people who paid you the $1000 can raise your taxes by $1001.
 
No. This would tell the government that you don't really care about voting and you'll take a paltry amount of money for it. It's basically telling them that you're ok with exchanging freedom for money. Most government corruption that we try to fight is basically exactly that. Our rights being removed in the name of money.

Not that voting actually accomplishes anything anyway, but I would not give up that right.

Lot of people choose not to vote because they hate the current system, and while I don't blame them, I say, at least go vote for green or other oddball party or something. If there is an influx of people voting for these oddball parties it sends a message.
 
Can I get another poll option?

"No, because if I don't take the money but many other do, my vote counts more." 😀
 
I would if it was legal, since I live in CA, I could give some of that money to candidates to be spent in other states, where it would make a lot more difference than my vote.
 
GagHalfrunt said:
I'm honestly surprised that so many people do vote. The choice is between a guy who claims to be looking out for the rich, but is only looking out for himself and a guy who claims to be looking out for the poor, but is only looking out for himself. Or you can vote for a 3rd party who claims he's not part of the establishment and wants to take care of real people, but is only looking out for himself.

Show me a person worth voting for and I'll vote. Toss up the same collection of whores who will say whatever the people funding their campaign wants them to say and I'll keep staying home.
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