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Vote buying (also referred to as electoral clientelism and patronage politics) occurs when a political party or candidate distributes money or resources to a voter in an upcoming election with the expectation that the voter votes for the actor handing out monetary rewards. [1]
Sandel explores why vote buying in political elections (rather than in corporate matters) evokes moral hesitation. He concludes his analysis on the trading of political votes by claiming that democracy is not simply about aggregating the interests and preferences of voting constituents and translating them into policy.
The Ethics of Voting by Jason Brennan is a book which outlines a contrasting argument to the idea that it is the civic duty of individuals within a democracy to vote. The core tenet upon which his argument resides is that the individuals who do not know what they are voting for should not feel the moral obligation to vote on issues about which they are uninformed, and that democracies would ...
“There is a history of vote buying in the United States where political organizations and groups paid or rewarded people to vote in elections," said Kim Wyman, a former Washington secretary of ...
I’ve even been approached by people in New York and California online offering me money to buy my vote. I get texts every day, mostly from groups endorsing Kamala, but a few Trump-affiliated ...
Voter impersonation: A person claims to be someone else when casting a vote. Vote-buying: Agreements between voters and others to buy and sell votes, ...
Patronage, turnout buying, abstention buying, and vote buying are subcategories of clientelism. [1] [14] Patronage refers to an intra-party flow of benefits to members. [1] Turnout buying, coined by Nichter, treats or bribes voters to the polls whereas abstention buying treats or bribes voters to keep them from going to the polls. [15]
“It is therefore a cynical vote-buying scheme where the bill for buying the votes will be presented to children and unborn children,” said David C. Rose, senior research fellow at the American ...