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sbuss / voteswap

Vote Pairing for the 2016 US Presidential election

http://voteswap.us

MIT License

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Basic copy #24

Closed sbuss closed 8 years ago

sbuss commented 8 years ago

Need basic copy including:

What is this
How does it work
Isn't this illegal?
When is it launching
email list signup?

sbuss commented 8 years ago

Relevant links:

9th circuit ruling that declares this constitutionally protected speech: http://cdn.ca9.uscourts.gov/datastore/opinions/2007/08/06/0655517.pdf
election law blog which summarizes it: http://electionlawblog.org/archives/009038.html
shtetl-optimized post about vote swapping: http://www.scottaaronson.com/blog/?p=2891

sbuss commented 8 years ago

relevant snippet from the ruling:

On the merits, we hold that Jones violated Appellants’ First Amendment rights. The websites’ vote-swapping mechanisms as well as the communication and vote swaps they enabled were constitutionally protected. Although California certainly has valid interests in preventing election fraud and corruption, and perhaps in avoiding the subversion of the Electoral College, these interests did not justify the complete disabling of the vote-swapping mechanisms.

sbuss commented 8 years ago

Getting some help for this, finally