Putting money where their votes are
Via The Thicket’s post on the topic, here’s an idea causing a stir in Arizona because of it’s conflating of money and politics, but not for the typical reasons:
Osterloh's initiative, the first initiative to be certified by Arizona election officials for the November general election ballot, would use unclaimed Arizona Lottery prize money to provide a $1 million reward to one randomly selected voter after each general election. A voter would get one entry in the drawing for voting in either the primary or general election or two if voting both times.
Maybe it’s just me, but I’m almost certain that someone said at the birth of this idea: “It’s just so crazy, it might work.”
My question is if the Arizona folks get away with it, how quickly the idea will spread to other places.
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Hey! They stole Sue Polinky's idea! We were shooting the breeze at one of the blogger meetups several months ago and Sue suggested that we try to get a car dealer to donate a car that would be given away after an election randomly to someone who had voted.
Posted on July 17, 2006 1:19 AM