Trade votes with voters from swing states
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Re: Trade votes with voters from swing states
#2Wondering how/if this strategy could help voters in safely Republican states who wish to make a dent in that safety.
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#3Fighting 'anti-democracy' with anti-democracy.. Disgusting.
Re: Trade votes with voters from swing states
#4Wondering how/if this strategy could help voters in safely Republican states who wish to make a dent in that safety.
Is this a legal strategy? It seems illegal.
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#5Re: Trade votes with voters from swing states
#6This is not as stupid an idea as I thought from the headline, but it still suffers from the problem that (for good reason), there is no way for a position to prove who they voted for. As such, both parties are strictly better off cheating by saying they want to trade and voting for their own preferred candidate instead.
Re: Trade votes with voters from swing states
#7This is not as stupid an idea as I thought from the headline, but it still suffers from the problem that (for good reason), there is no way for a position to prove who they voted for. As such, both parties are strictly better off cheating by saying they want to trade and voting for their own preferred candidate instead.
Also, there is no way for you to verify how many trades the counter-party has entered into. It is exploitable as it stands, and more opportunities would arise if it became popular (for example, the 'safe state' assumption could be invalidated.)
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#8Earlier quoted context omitted.
Is this a legal strategy? It seems illegal.
On what grounds are you thinking there's anything illegal happening here?
You are selling your vote. Where im from (denmark) thats highly illegal. Its also illegal to document what you voted for, to insure you cant sell your vote.
Re: Trade votes with voters from swing states
#9Re: Trade votes with voters from swing states
#10Earlier quoted context omitted.
On what grounds are you thinking there's anything illegal happening here?
You are selling your vote. Where im from (denmark) thats highly illegal. Its also illegal to document what you voted for, to insure you cant sell your vote.
There is no vote-selling happening here. No money or anything of value is changing hands. People are promising, and expecting the other to make good on the promise, to exchange votes. This is an exercising of one's right to free speech and engage in the voting process, and was declared protected by the First Amendment in Porter v. Bowen.
Edit: Porter v. Bowen was a federal Appeals Court ruling, so it isn't a SCOTUS-level, nationwide decision. But it certainly establishes precedent, and could potentially be used by those who wish to challenge any state laws that expressly prohibit vote-swapping as a restriction of their First Amendment rights.