“What started off as a casual conversation among friends has turned into a serious pursuit,” says Paul Wolfe, spokesperson for the BuyMyVote.ca development team. “My wife said her vote was worth enough money to buy a new ski jacket, a friend of mine said he’d like a new car and I thought my vote was at least worth a good meal at The Keg. The more people we asked, the better the answers got. We have friends who would never sell their votes and others who would be happy to trade it for a case of beer. Also, with new technology, like camera phones, we quickly realized that vote buying and selling wasn’t just theory. It’s scary, but today it is possible to actually buy and sell votes in a marketplace fashion.”
by: Pierre Bourque
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But how about vote trading?
In the 2000 presidential election, websites were used to link Gore and Nader voters in different states – the idea being that Nader picked up votes in states where Gore was safe, and Gore picked up Nader votes where he was weak.
It was all done on the mutual-honor system, where linked voters would agree to vote as they promised.
Think what that could do for the representatives of hopeless parties that make up the canadian political wasteland!
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If I stand for my country today...will my country be here to stand for me tomorrow?
One is illegal (in the USA, at least. I can't speak for canada), while the other is based on a moral decision, based on trust, between two individuals who vote as if they lived where the other lives (geographically, at least).
Whelan, you seem to be too dense to understand how much this concept could benefit your fringe party.
Can someone smarter than her speak up, and implement it on the Canadaian Rural Action Party's behalf?
Perhaps you haven't quite got the concept yet but one, fringe is something that dangles and only serves to attract the eye, we go for the throat of the issues. Second, we are not for sale, barter or trade, we are for full ownership of our country by our citizens, we are not interested in being bought in order to have power because we don't seek power for ourselves. We don't win in the election process, if any of our candidates are elected the people win. If we accepted the dense notion that selling ourselves would gain something, we would only lose the most important aspect of our party. We aren't interested in being bought, we don't want to make deals once we are elected, we are only interested in common sense solutions for the real problems Canadians face. Maybe the hardest thing for some to understand is that not all people can be bought. There was a life policy that went like this, 'a promise is only as good as the word of the person who makes it' That is the problem in politics today. Winning for the sake of winning is not the goal, winning so we can make the changes we speak of is the goal.
What logic would say, sell yourselves or make a deal now so you can get into power and then say you won't sell, trade or make deal to stay in power?...how strange...not our goal!
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If I stand for my country today...will my country be here to stand for me tomorrow?
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If I stand for my country today...will my country be here to stand for me tomorrow?
But vote trading is a viable option for your fringe group to gain some visibility. Don't dismiss it out of hand. It is, in a microcosm, the way that all politics work: people make compromises.
Of course, there's no hope for you to gain meaningful power of any kind.
It is time for people to walk the talk and stand up as full participating citizens in the democracy we want, not the mock democracy we are being dictated! Perhaps you are addressing CAP as though we have the same mission as the big four, which is simply to gain 'power', that is where you make a mistake. We seek to empower the people of Canada! We do not want power for our own personal political gain. If any other party would stand as we do, we would support them, unfortunately none do and so we must stand and speak for those who cannot speak.
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If I stand for my country today...will my country be here to stand for me tomorrow?
can u put a price on life? ... donot think so
well, here is a snapshot from a bean counters viewpoint, just ask
someone in risk insurance - voter,resident,citizen does indeed
have a value
price of a canadian vote?
ah, seems to be that sometime ago the world banking system
estitimated the value of canada at 9quadtrillion - mid 90s perhaps -
divided by 25-30million for that time frame and you now have an
interest in a dividend whereas ownership of said dividend is held
in trust by the elected - just ask bush what are we worth, bc alone
is a 25billion per year corporation
wonder what the crowd who do not vote would value their vote at