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dc_dux · 10-18-2007, 06:03 AM

Its a federal crime (and a crime in most states) to sell your vote in the US:

§ 597. Expenditures to influence voting

Whoever makes or offers to make an expenditure to any person, either to vote or withhold his vote, or to vote for or against any candidate; and

Whoever solicits, accepts, or receives any such expenditure in consideration of his vote or the withholding of his vote—

Shall be fined under this title or imprisoned not more than one year, or both; and if the violation was willful, shall be fined under this title or imprisoned not more than two years, or both.
http://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/ht...7----000-.html

Add a potential fine and two years time into your thought process....not that prosecution is likely.

10-18-2007, 06:03 AM	#15 (permalink)
dc_dux Location: Washington DC	Its a federal crime (and a crime in most states) to sell your vote in the US: § 597. Expenditures to influence voting Whoever makes or offers to make an expenditure to any person, either to vote or withhold his vote, or to vote for or against any candidate; and Whoever solicits, accepts, or receives any such expenditure in consideration of his vote or the withholding of his vote— Shall be fined under this title or imprisoned not more than one year, or both; and if the violation was willful, shall be fined under this title or imprisoned not more than two years, or both. http://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/ht...7----000-.html Add a potential fine and two years time into your thought process....not that prosecution is likely. __________________ "The perfect is the enemy of the good." ~ Voltaire