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‘Nadertrading’ hits the Net
■ Green Party supporters
have organized a nation-wide
vote-trading campaign
By Lindsay Buchele
Oregon Daily Emeraid
Supporters of presidential candi
date Ralph Nader believe they have
found a way to help Vice President A1
Gore win the general election, while
helping Nader eamfive percent of the
popular vote in order to receive feder
al campaign financing for the Green
Party in the future.
Several Web sites, including the
recently shut down
Voteswap2000.com, set up a system
where voters can take part in “voter
pairing.”
The system targets voters in “swing
states,” or states that are so close in the
polls that either Gore or Texas Gov.
George W. Bush could win the elec
toral votes. With pairing, Gore sup
porters who live in states where Bush
is predicted to win will vote for Nader.
In return, Nader supporters living in
swing states will vote for Gore.
Nader support is strong in a num
ber of swing states, including Oregon
and Washington. But because he has
no chance of winning the popular
vote in these states, his supporters are
faced with a dilemma: They can ei
ther vote for Nader, attempting to help
him gain the 5 percent, or they can
vote for Gore, in hopes of stopping
Bush from winning the presidency.
Nader spokeswoman Stacy
Malkan said her campaign wasn’t in
terested in giving votes to Vice Presi
dent Al Gore.
“Some people are encouraging tac
tical voting, but our campaign is en
couraging people in every state to vote
for Ralph Nader,” Malkan said.
The web sites voteswap2000.com,
nadertrader.org, voteexchange.com
and winwincampaign.org either dis
cuss how to set up a voter exchange
or actually pair up voters through e
mail. Voteswap2000.com and voteex
change.com are two sights that pair
voters up, something that is illegal in
California and Oregon.
As of Oct. 30, California Secretary
of State Bill Jones notified
VoteSwap2000.com it was in viola
tion of California state law, which pro
hibits entering into a contract where
something of monetary value is given
in exchange for a vote.
VoteSwap2000.com then turned off
its software in order to comply with
the state’s law.
Anytime a voter agrees to vote a
particular way and enters into a verbal
contract with someone else, they are
in violation of the statute,” said Paddy
McGuire, chief of staff in the Secretary
of State’s office.
McGuire said some voter trading
sites are OK, because they include dis
cussions and suggestions rather than
actually pairing voters up.
Nadertrader.org is considered a dis
cussion site and is legal in Oregon.
Scott Aaronson, a computer science
student at the University of California,
Berkeley, has been running a link off
of the nadertrader.com site in support
of voter exchange web sites.
“Nadertrading is an excellent
idea,” Aaronson said. “ It’s voting in a
way that doesn’t change someone’s
beliefs.”
The Oregon Secretary of State’s Of
fice has written to other sites that are
providing voter pairing, such as vote
exchange.com, asking them to stop
running the site.
“One difficulty with Internet com
merce is so many sites are based in
states that are out of our jurisdiction,”
McGuire said. “There’s not a lot that
can be done to stop them. ”
The Associated Press contributed to this story.
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^ AN APPEAL TO CONSCIENCE ^
By Concerned Writers, Scholars, Artists, and Activists 2000
WE, THE UNDERSIGNED, are deeply disturbed by the
continuing national campaign by Ralph Nader, which is growing
ever more harmful as Election Day approaches.
It is now plain that Mr. Nader is willing to make incredible
statements and take unbelievable positions in order to gain the
5% of the vote he seeks. Instead of a liberal or progressive force,
his campaign now seriously threatens to elect the dangerous
George W. Bush to the presidency. Despite Mr. Nader’s past great
achievements, and despite the good faith of his rank-and-file
supporters, he has now become a wrecking-ball campaign -one
that betrays the very liberal, humane and progressive values it
claims to uphold.
Recently, Mr. Nader has said that:
✓ IF GIVEN A CHOICE BETWEEN BUSH AND GORE, HE WOULD VOTE FOR BUSH
Mr. Nader would happily throw the country to the Right, placing the Supreme Court, the rest of the federal judiciary, and the entire executive regulatory system including the Food and Drug
Administration in the hands of the most retrograde elements in our political life. (Outside Magazine, August 2000; see www.outsidemagazine.com/magazine/200008/200008ciunp naderlhtm)
✓ ENVIRONMENTAL REACTIONARIES SERVE A POSITIVE FUNCTION
Mr. Nader has argued that past appointments like Reagan's Secretary of the Interior James Watt usefully serve as provocateurs for change. He has also denounced the Sierra Club and other long
standing allies for their, "servile mentality in not supporting him." (New York Times, October 29. 2000; www.msnbc.com/news/481662.asp)
✓ THE REPEAL OF ROE V. WADE WOULD BE OF LITTLE CONSEQUENCE
Never a champion of women's rights, Mr. Nader claims that abortion rights might just as well he left up to the states.
(This Week with Sam Donaldson, October 29, 2000, transcript at www.abcnews.com)
✓ ALL U.S. AID TO ISRAEL SHOULD BE CUT
No matter what one thinks of the current situation in the Middle East, such rhetoric is not only irresponsible, it is inflammatory. (Common Dreams News Center, October 24, 2000.)
But these are only the latest thoughtless utterances from Mr. Nader. From the start, he said
his effort would help the Democrats gain votes in the House of Representatives — while at
the same time he has vilified the Democrats as no different than the Republicans. His
supporters in various states talk about a "risk-free” Nader vote in places where (lore or Bush are
strong, “even as Mr. Nader himself aggressively looks for votes in liberal cities and on college
campuses in vital toss-up states." (These toss-ups now may well include California.)
Should Governor Bush be elected President, and the Republicans hold the Congress, conservative
Republicans will have virtually captured firm control of all three branches of the Federal
Government for the first time since 1930. Mr. Nader, who is also supporting Green congressional
candidates who have no chance of winning in some tight races, apparently does not care about
this — or wforse, seeks it, under the naive impression that it will heighten social contradictions
and lead to what he has called “a progressive convulsion”— that is, the worse, the better. This is
sectarianism of a familiar sort in the century just past — a sectarianism that had reaped nothing
but political catastrophe.
We implore all liberal and progressive voters to reject the Nader campaign on November 7 and to vote for Gore and Lieberman.
68S010
Signatories (partial list; list in formation)
Benjamin Barber, Rutgers University
Paul Berman, writer and critic
Michael Berube
Marco Calavita, film critic
Ellen Chesler, writer and critic
Mitchell Cohen, City University of New York, Dissent
Bogdan Denitch, City University of New York
Ronald Dworkin, New York University
Dagoberto Gilb, writer
Todd Gitlin, New York University
Francisco Goldman, writer
Mary Gordon, novelist and critic
Hendrik Hertzberg, The New Yorker
John B. Judis. The New Republic
David Kusnet, writer and critic
Jeremy Larner, writer and critic
Wendy Lesser, The Threepenny Review
Harold Meyerson, Los Angeles Weekly
Tom Morrison. Nobel laureate, novelistand critic
Jo-Ann Mort, Open Society Fund
Brian Morton, novelist and critic
David Osborne, writer
George Packer, novelist and critic
James Shapiro, Columbia University
Jayne Anne Phillips, novelist
Gloria Steinem, writer and activist
Ruy Teixeira, Century Foundation
Siva Vaidhyanathan, New York University
Judith B. Walzer, formerly New School University
Michael Walzer, Institute for Advanced Study, Dissent
Jim Weinstein, In These Times
Sean Wilentz, Princeton University
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