Putting paid to an innovation in market democracy,
Voteauction.com has been shut down. It seems that The Powers That Be don't like anyone
other than the incumbents buying votes.
"[Swift] proposes killing the poor and eating them to help solve hunger
problems," Baumgartner said. "His method was to create an extreme example of
some people's ideas. And that was my intent -- to create an extreme example of
the 'election industry' in order to accent what the real issue is. And I don't
think I was the first person to come up with the term 'election industry'
either."