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To: Travis_Bickle who wrote (87292)	10/3/2007 12:15:48 PM
From: benwood	Respond to of 110194

Ah, right. I hope it will never fly, and just go away. There was actually an initiative on the ballot in Washington State a few years ago by a tribe trying to get approval for slot machines, and it read that if it passed and if you voted for it, then you would receive $100, purportedly profit sharing but really just vote buying. I'm not sure how they intended to figure out who to pay, but it was defeated by voters anyway. Most people I think will get a bad feeling if they think their vote is being bought, and for that reason among others I think Clinton's idea is misguided and will either a) backfire or b) quietly go away. If people rally around that sort of thing, we're in deep...