I think Chris has the best idea yet:
If Pepsi and Burger King can give away a free song download with food purchases, why not the government too? Yep, when you vote you get a free song download. Hell, since this voting thing is important, give the people two free music downloads!
Sounds like a grand idea to me!
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Wouldn’t that encourage people to vote more than once. Heck, it would encourage me to vote and I’m not even American…..
They could vote 5 or 6 times — as long as it kept bush out of office 😉
In Oregon, we have mail-in ballots, and places that don’t, each voter is required to go to a specific place to vote, as their name will be at that place.
I’m 20, so this is the first presidential election I’m eligible to vote in, but you’d have to give me more than $2 worth of pop music to get me involved in all that sillyness. A whole lot more. On second thought, you couldn’t even buy my abstinence.
(This is my first comment here, by the way. You have a very nice looking (and functional) weblog, Jake. It’s in my news aggregator and everything.)
It might get people to vote, but it wouldn’t get them to care about making an educated choice first.
My feeling is — if someone doesn’t take the time to actually understand the issues so they can make an educated decision, I’m perfectly happy if they stay home.
Don’t be a sheep at the polls. Look at what the candidates are actually DOING (not just the image they portray and what they say, but what they really do) and THEN vote.
And give me the free songs.