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dvdiva — Wed, 02 Aug 2006 13:52:58 GMT

You have to buy a ticket for it to be a lottery. It's a giveaway not a lottery. The only real problem is the odds that the winner would be discovered to be non-existant or a non eligible voter. If they want to combine it with photo ID to vote it is an OK idea. Otherwise the only thing that will be shocking about it will be the paucity of winners who should have been voting in the first place.

A million bad reasons to vote

Lottery Post — Wed, 02 Aug 2006 13:41:12 GMT

Why the Arizona voter lottery is a terrible idea

By Jeff Jacoby, Boston Globe

Arizona voters will face an embarrassment of electoral riches this fall, when as many as 19 proposed laws appear on the state ballot for their approval. Among the measures to be voted on are a 50 percent increase in state legislators' salaries, a constitutional amendment allowing bail to be denied to illegal aliens , and the designation of English as the state's official language.

But one Arizona initiative ha... [ More ]