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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.
Vote-auction.net - Bringing democracy and capitalism closer together. Founded by James Baumgartner (as voteauction.com), produced by ubermorgen.com and helped by ŽTMark.
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.
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.
Web site says vote auction was just a 'game' - [CNN]
Embattled vote auction site returns to the Web - [CNN]
kuro5hin.org: Dot com ruled by US law? - Article and forum discussing the implications of InterNIC pulling the European domain vote-auction.com.
Salon.com: Democracy for sale - Bid for the vote of one U.S. citizen, now on eBay!
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.
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.

Wikipedia Articles

Conscience vote - A conscience vote or free vote is a type of vote in a legislative body where legislators are each expected to vote according to their own personal conscience rather than according to an official line set down by their political party.
Abstention - Abstention is a term in election procedure for when a participant in a vote either does not go to vote (on election day) or, in parliamentary procedure, is present during the vote, but does not cast a ballot. Abstention must be contrasted with "blank vote", in which a participant in a vote cast a deliberately unlegitimate vote (drawing pictures on the ballot, etc.
Vote pairing - Vote pairing (or vote swapping as it has also been called) is the method where a voter in one district agrees to vote tactically for a less-preferred candidate or party who has a greater chance of winning in their district, in exchange for a voter from another district voting tactically ...
Bubba Vote - The Bubba Vote is a term that refers to rural, southern US voters, particularly southern male voters. The "Bubba" in "Bubba Vote" is another term for male hillbilly and redneck and as such "Bubba Vote" plays on such stereotypes of the deep-south.
Vote allocation - Vote allocation is a system of tactical voting used in the Republic of China on Taiwan from the late-1990s until 2004, after which the voting system is to be changed from single non-transferable vote to a parallel voting system. In this system, voters are asked to vote for a party candidate based on items such as their day of birthday so as to evenly distribute votes.