The Art of Voting

Digital and online technologies are not only used by insurgent social movements to disseminate information in innovative ways but are also generative of distinctive forms in which activist groups may be organised. Social networking sites introduced widespread and effective strategic voting in the United States of America’s Presidential election of 2000. The aim of these sites was to enable voters in different states to swap votes. In 2007 a federal appeals court decided that at least one form of these vote-swapping sites were constitutionally protected. Online vote swapping has since been advocated or has occurred in other countries around the world, including Canada and the United Kingdom. Even more controversially, ‘Voteauction’ by Ubermorgen.com was a website asserting it enabled individuals to buy and sell their votes in the 2000 Presidential election in the United States of America. Ubermorgen.com declared the work legal art after it was shut down before voting took place. These political actions brought into question the politics of electoral boundaries. ‘Voteauction’ invited those who encountered it to focus on how legal systems structure the democratic mandates of nation-states and reflect on the implications of real-time technologies for the way in which the law regulates society.

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Jeremy Pilcher

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Publication date: July 2015

Publication date (Print): July 2015

Pages: 171-175

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DOI: 10.14236/ewic/eva2015.17

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Conference name: Electronic Visualisation and the Arts (EVA 2015)

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Conference location: London, UK

Conference date: 7 & 9 July 2015

Conference sponsor: Electronic Workshops in Computing (eWiC)

Conference theme: Electronic Visualisation and the Arts

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[1] M Anderson 2000 Selling Votes or Peddling Lies? Wired http://archive.wired.com/politics/law/news/2000/10/39770?currentPage=all 19 03 2015

[2] R Beardsworth 1996 Derrida and the Political Routledge London

[3] J Derrida 1993 Spectres of Marx Routledge New York

[4] J Derrida 2002 Nietzsche and the Machine.E Rottenberg Negotiations Stanford Stanford University Press

[5] R Hasen 2000 Vote Buying California Law Review 88 5 1323 1371

[6] S Kreimer 2001 Technologies of Protest: Insurgent Social Movements and the First Amendment in the Era of the Internet University of Pennsylvania Law Review 150 1 119 171

[7] J. H Miler 2001 Derrida and Literature.T Cohen Jacques Derrida and the Humanities Cambridge Cambridge University Press

[8] R Murray 2005 ‘Voteauction’.net: Protected Political Speech or Treason? Journal of High Technology Law 5 357 380

[9] D Quaranta 2009 Ubermorgen.com. The Future is Now.D Quaranta Ubermorgen.com FPeditions Brescia

[10] A Sanders 2004 In Defense of Vote Buying: How ‘ Nader Traders’ Can Defeat Rent Seeking Hamline Journal of Public Law & Policy 26 43 1 29

[11] J Sisgold 2001 Vote-Swapping Over the Internet: Free Speech or Voter Corruption? Hastings Communication & Entertainment Law Journal 24 Fall 149 167

[12] S Stirland 2007 Internet Vote-Swapping Legal, Says 9^th Circuit Wired http://www.wired.com/2007/08/internet-vote-s/ 19 03 2015

[13] Ubermorgen.com http://www.vote-auction.net/ 19 03 2015

[14] B Worley 2001 Nader’s Traders vs. State Regulators: Examining the Controversy over Internet Vote Swapping in the 2000 Presidential Election North Carolina Journal of Law & Technology 2 1 32 66

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