Sell Your Right To Vote

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I'll give you 50p for it.

Stick it up your jumper

I'm never gonna vote again anyway

Well not at least until the world has got over itself

50p and I'll get you that Curly Wurly you always wanted. Final offer.

I don't fold that easy mate

Throw in a 6 bag of Skips and I'll think about it

I want more than money in exchange for my right to vote. The true price is too horrible to consider.

Depends on the price. I'd have to think hard what my minimum would be. It would be a lot.

In practical terms my right to vote is pretty useless to me because I don't live in a swing state in the US and my UK constituency is a safe Labour seat, so the result will be the same whether I vote or not, so I don't.* So logically I should set the price at a few quid or dollars, but there's more to it than that. I don't know what more to it there is, but there is.

* I might vote if they allowed negative voting. But there's usually nobody I want to positively support, and voting for them would just encourage them when I think they all suck. Actually I'm not allowed to vote in the US until I've done my citizenship ceremony, so I can't sell what I don't yet have. And as they've never let me vote, I've not thought much about whether I would or not. The US is a bit less "first past the post" than the UK (I think), so my vote in the US might make a tiny difference, but it would be incredibly diluted. More thought required.

It might lead to something horrible if everybody did it, but not everybody would do it unless the money they were offered was going to set them up for life, and that's not going to happen.

Like somebody here said, who's making the offer, and what are they up to?

It's a bit like "Indecent Proposal" isn't it?

Government's offering to buy your vote is never going to happen. Moving electoral boundaries or disenfranchising the vulnerable is a much cheaper way to manipulate outcomes of elections.

I would sell my vote for 10 Billion dollars.

Mines a steal at 10 million then

10 million dollars and a soul contract giving me complete ownership over the buyer's immortal soul.

Told ya it was horrible.