Voting at the Arizona Democrat Primary.
Posted on 05/23/2006 11:39:47 AM PDT by Cagey
PHOENIX -- An Arizona man is betting that a chance at $1 million will bring more people to the polls.
Dr. Mark Osterloh is a Tucson, Ariz., ophthalmologist and political activist who headed and bankrolled the campaign to get a proposal on the state's November ballot that would give one lucky voter $1 million. Under the proposal, anyone who actually casts a ballot would be eligible.
Osterloh and other supporters submitted petitions Monday bearing what they said were more than 185,000 signatures of registered voters. That's well over the 122,000 required to put a proposed state law on the 2006 ballot.
Osterloh said the money would come from unclaimed lottery winnings.
Elections officials will check the petition signatures to see whether enough are valid to qualify the measure......
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As long as they don't offer scratch and sniff... -- Barbara Boxer
If approved I think this would set a bad precedent.
Who wil file the first lawsuit claiming that it's unconstitutional becuase it discriminates against illegal aliens..."One man, one ticket!!"
I just like this idea
I dont know why
Too late, the dims have been paying people to vote for years.
An additional issue would be the question of who gets the money if the voter is dead, as many dim voters are.
I'm pretty sure this wouldn't make it past the Voting Rights Act, which prohibits any "consideration or value" or whatever for voting. Statistically, a lottery ticket has some value however small.
If a bar can't give you a drink discount because you show up Tuesday evening with your stub, then this shouldn't either.
So much for one person, one vote.
I would much prefer that informed people vote on issues that they care about, not just show up for a payday. I have a feeling that the type of person that is influenced by this tactic will not vote the way we would prefer.
Voting at the Arizona Democrat Primary.
Oh geez. That's the last thing we need is to encourage more stupid people to vote.
Bingo. What a great idea - let's draw people out who think they're playing the lottery. I'm sure they'll make an informed decision.
"Voting for dollars!"
People have fought, and died for the right to vote.
Now this voting lottery.
Obnoxious. If someone doesn't care to vote, I'd rather they didn't vote. What we need is more concerned voters, not more stupid voters.
This really is disturbing.
"ophthalmologist"
I can SEE his point...
He has a VISION...
I agree, this is totally stupid. And where does the money come...the taxpayers? If people don't want to vote...then they don't vote.
We don't want those kind of voters. There are already too many uninformed voters going to the polls.
Cheapens the democratic process. Reduces it to greed.
Turning voting into a lottery? That's the dumbest thing I've ever heard.
It saddens me that they have to concider a lure like that to get people to do what is their patriotic responsibility.
exactly. people braved death to vote in Iraq. Meanwhile, we want to bribe people to get off their fat asses.
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