Would Democracy Work Better If You Could Buy More Votes? One Economist Says Yes

Date: Nov 07 2012

Filed under: Election 2012

Would voting work if we had to pay?

Voters elected President Barack Obama to a second term Tuesday, with impressive turnouts across the country, an outcome that left ardent Romney supporters wondering what more, if anything, they could have done to swing the result their way. And while millions of citizens stayed home, perhaps apathetically believing that their vote wouldn’t matter, many others on both sides of the question so vehemently wanted to see their candidate win that they’d have voted multiple times if they could.

So…

Would Democracy Work Better If You Could Buy More Votes? One Economist Says Yes originally appeared on DailyFinance.com on 2012-11-07T11:37:00Z.

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