In the site's own words: "The election industry is spending hundreds of millions of dollars in an attempt to influence the presidential election, system is an inefficient waste of money for the candidates and their supporters. Voteauction.com is committed to improving this system by bringing the campaign contributors' money directly to the voters."
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- 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.
- Slashdot: Voteauction.com News and discussion forum.
- 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.
- Vote-auction.net Bringing democracy and capitalism closer together. Founded by James Baumgartner (as voteauction.com), produced by ubermorgen.com and helped by TMark.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.