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Did You VoteOrNot.org?

Posted by michael on from the if-you-don't-vote-you-can't-complain dept.

WhiskerBiscuit writes "The boys at Am I Hot or Not have started a sweepstakes to encourage people to register to vote. According to this blogger's analysis, the contest should encourage disempowered people to register (subject to the constraint that poor people don't have computers). The organizers have cleverly split the prize between a lucky winner and whoever happens to have referred them, providing a selection advantage for viral dispersal of the meme."

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  1. Just what we need by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    More leftist swill from the geeks at Slashdot. Anyone who hasn't got the gumption to go vote on their own I DON'T WANT VOTING!

    This isn't a popularity contest, it's important. I'd rather the lame morons stayed home.

  2. Poor People Have Access by nurb432 · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    Dont give me that garbage that poor people cant get online.. They can get online as easily as they can waste their vote on the wrong party.

    1/2 the time they get funded via tax dollars to go get a computer + internet.. While *I* have to pay for mine.. ( and theirs via my taxes ).

    They also can goto the damned library, in this day and age few are not online... often via MY tax dollars..

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