On Wed, Nov 26, 2003 at 09:18:42AM -0800, Tim May wrote:
On Nov 26, 2003, at 8:10 AM, BillyGOTO wrote:
I have no problem with this free choice contract.
You can't sell your vote for the same reason that Djinni don't grant wishes for "more wishes".
A silly comment. I take it you're saying "Because the rules don't allow it." Or something similar to this.
The "rules" are precisely what we are discussing.
In this case, the "rules" are implemented as the design requirements for the ballot box under discussion. A snoop-resistant ballot box can give the "rules" some huevos. If I sell you my Kennedy vote and then go into a Snoop-Proof(tm) box and cast it, you won't really be able to tell if I've ripped you off.
And "vote buying" is much more widespread than what happens at the lowest level we happen to be talking about here, where Alice is paid $10 to vote for some particular candidate. In fact, vote buying is much more common and more dangerous at the level of political representatives.
And their ballots are generally not cast behind moldy blue curtains.