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Vote Auction
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- Every four years there is an election in the United States.
- We vote for people to help make laws for us
- When we vote, we go to a place that has our ballots
- When we pick a person that we want elected, we mark ballots and put them in a box
- The law says that we have the right to vote for who we want
- The law also says that we can not sell or give away our vote to someone else
- Someone has decided to help people sell and buy their votes
- This is wrong
- A person in charge of the elections is mad
- He is going to try and stop those people who are selling and buying votes
- He will try to arrest those who are in charge of doing that
- The information about buying and selling votes is on the Internet
- The Internet is a system with many people connected to it using their computers
- Anyone with access to the Internet can read about buying and selling votes on a web page
- A college student started this web page
- It was shut down
- Another person from a different country bought it and still has it on the Internet
- He was told to shut it down as well
- No one knows whether or not any voting was changed because of this web page
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