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If not, which one of you was it?

http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2008/04/09/politics/uwire/main4005093.shtml

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" N.C. State Student Tries To Sell Vote On EBay, After placing her vote for the democratic party for sale on eBay, Sara Yasin, senior in textiles and apparel management, received a mandate from the North Carolina State Board of Elections instructing her to remove it. According to Yasin, a former Student Centers President and a former Student Senator, the idea originally began as a joke. "[A friend and I] were just talking about how the Democratic race has gotten pretty ridiculous," Yasin said. "I mean it's good healthy competition, but I just feel like it has become a bidding war." The conversation sparked Yasin to put her vote for sale on eBbay, and while she said she only laughed about it at first, the vote was up for anyone to buy on April 4. Ben Mazur, senior in religious studies, said he remembers the moment Yasin put the vote online. "She called me before she set it all up and said, 'Check your e-mail in about half an hour. I'm about to do something really funny,'" Mazur said. Shortly after her call, Mazur said he received an invitation to Yasin's Facebook group entitled, "Selling My Vote in the Democratic Primary." "My immediate reaction was that has got to be illegal," Mazur said. "But it was such a funny concept that I wanted it to happen." Yasin also said she thought her action may have been illegal, but she decided to go through with it. She said she decided she did not want to keep the money from the sold vote. "I decided that the most important thing to me on this campus is SATELLITE, a camp for students who come from rural areas in North Carolina who historically don't get to go to college in that area," Yasin said. Yasin decided she would give the profit from her online sale to the charity because "it would do more for North Carolina than the primary race could." She started the bids at 15 cents for her vote, she said, and had planned to continue the bidding until April 11. However, Yasin receied an eBbay message yesterday from an NCSBOE member stating that she must take her item down from E-bay because it was a violation of North Carolina General Statute 163-275 (2) and a Class I felony. Statute 163-275 (2) states that for any person to give or promise or request or accept at any time, before or after any such primary or election, any money, property or other thing of value whatsoever in return for the vote of any elector shall be guilty of a Class I felony. Upon receiving her message to end the bid, Yasin said the first thing she did was call to make sure it wasn't a joke. After calling, Yasin confirmed that the NCSBOE was indeed the organization that had contacted her. "They were actually really nice about it and just told me to end the bidding," she said. "I didn't put up a fight or anything -- I just ended it." Mazur said that while he knew it was illegal to bribe someone for a vote, he had never heard of anyone selling their vote for the primary election. "It doesn't surprise me that it was shut down, though," he said. One of the online bidders for Yasin's vote, Brian Mathis, junior in business management, said he had a feeling when he bid that it might be illegal, but he wasn't thinking about the ramifications of his action. "I wasn't serious about bidding for her," Mathis said. "My main thing was to contribute to charity." Yasin said now that she cannot sell her vote online, she does not know who she will vote for. "I feel kind of dumb because I usually consider myself pretty informed and I was keeping up with the race," she said, "but I just couldn't make a decision." She said that although he will not win the North Carolina Primary Election, Mike Gravel will receive her vote beore Clinton or Obama. "I'm sick of people making me feel like, because I'm a woman, I should vote for Hillary, and because I'm a minority, I should be voting for Obama," Yasin said."

4/10/2008 10:43:42 AM

I already made a thread about it

She is registered on here, but hasn't posted in well over a year We scare her

4/10/2008 10:45:37 AM

silly black women

4/10/2008 10:46:10 AM

How much was teh bidding up to?

4/10/2008 10:46:34 AM

o i c



[Edited on April 10, 2008 at 10:48 AM. Reason : penis]

4/10/2008 10:46:45 AM

I know that girl, she's a tool.

4/10/2008 10:46:47 AM

She's not black; I think it was up to $50.

Don't delete the thread, because mine was only a link to the auction

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"I know that girl, she's a tool."

Then you don't know her. You may have met her, and Sara can be, uh, direct, but she's not a tool.

[Edited on April 10, 2008 at 10:47 AM. Reason : lkjfd]

4/10/2008 10:46:57 AM

where's your thread xstine?

4/10/2008 10:47:54 AM

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"silly black [insert minority adjective here] women"

you're right, i assumed

4/10/2008 10:48:43 AM

DonkeyButt's sister

and no, she isnt black

4/10/2008 10:49:16 AM

message_topic.aspx?topic=521124

4/10/2008 10:49:31 AM

thoughts?

4/10/2008 10:53:37 AM

i thought about doing this like over a year ago

4/10/2008 10:55:00 AM

^^Thoughts on what

4/10/2008 10:55:32 AM

thoughts on:
1) this topic of this thread
2) me making a duplicate thread of yours
3) me giving you a front massage in addition to the back massage that you want.

4/10/2008 10:56:51 AM

4/10/2008 10:57:40 AM

wait



you're not allowed to do this?

4/10/2008 10:58:21 AM

no Sir!

it involves a class I felony

4/10/2008 10:59:05 AM

where's this law?



nm, i read the news article.

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"163-275. Certain acts declared felonies. Any person who shall, in connection with any primary, general or special election held in this State, do any of the acts or things declared in this section to be unlawful, shall be guilty of a Class I felony. It shall be unlawful: (1) For any person fraudulently to cause his name to be placed upon the registration books of more than one election precinct or fraudulently to cause or procure his name or that of any other person to be placed upon the registration books in any precinct when such registration in that precinct does not qualify such person to vote legally therein, or to impersonate falsely another registered voter for the purpose of voting in the stead of such other voter; (2) For any person to give or promise or request or accept at any time, before or after any such primary or election, any money, property or other thing of value whatsoever in return for the vote of any elector; (3) For any person who is an election officer, a member of an election board or other officer charged with any duty with respect to any primary or election, knowingly to make any false or fraudulent entry on any election book or any false or fraudulent returns, or knowingly to make or cause to be made any false statement on any ballot, or to do any fraudulent act or knowingly and fraudulently omit to do any act or make any report legally required of such person;"

[Edited on April 10, 2008 at 11:02 AM. Reason : lol]

4/10/2008 11:00:22 AM

dumbass democrats

4/10/2008 11:05:09 AM

^^yep

4/10/2008 11:06:16 AM

i am a toooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooool-box.


it was for fun. and dedicated to christine.
and now i am an almost felon

4/10/2008 10:28:44 PM

w00t

4/10/2008 10:29:36 PM

^^oooh, so am I!

4/10/2008 10:30:26 PM

YAY ALMOST FELONS
except everyone thought i was actually a felon. although that'd be badass.

i love that the NCBOE signed up for Ebay to send me a message. 919ncgator 4 lyfe.

4/10/2008 10:32:16 PM

i like the fact that you knew that it was illegal but you did it anyways

4/10/2008 10:32:33 PM

hahahahaha

probably some Florida alum.

but props to ya, Sara!

4/10/2008 10:33:05 PM

i think i knew it was wrong but i thought funny > wrong.
but they were really nice about it. I didn't realize it was a felony. Most likely because I didn't research anything.

4/10/2008 10:34:57 PM

wtf...thats seriously illegal? thats fucking lame

4/10/2008 10:36:03 PM

i know! i bet they got way excited that they could almost take away my right to vote for trying to sell my vote.

4/10/2008 10:39:07 PM

hmm

if they did that, sara, then they would see somebody pissed off

myself, or course, and probably a few of my friends

4/10/2008 10:40:08 PM

i bet u a million dollars i could find some rich motherfucker that wouldnt tell the government and buy my vote

4/10/2008 10:40:53 PM

Doubtful. Your vote counts even less than the average person's, DNL.

4/10/2008 10:42:14 PM

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"if they did that, sara, then they would see somebody pissed off myself, or course, and probably a few of my friends "

and they say that chivalry is dead <3

4/11/2008 12:34:45 AM

i'm pretty sure that girl was one of the counselors at my orientation.

if so, she was pretty cool.

[Edited on April 11, 2008 at 12:52 AM. Reason : oh lawl she's posting. WERE YOU AN ORIENTATION COUNSELOR?]

4/11/2008 12:51:31 AM

yep i was an OC.
the loud, muslim girl = me

4/11/2008 1:10:26 AM

^I think thats the best user name on this site

4/11/2008 1:13:57 AM

Oh my sweet Jesus

oh my

oh

oh my

4/11/2008 1:27:17 AM

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"^I think thats the best user name on this site"

thank you

4/11/2008 11:50:08 AM

i can't believe this thread is still going on.....

*carl face*

btw...free bump

[Edited on April 11, 2008 at 11:59 AM. Reason : ...]

4/11/2008 11:59:08 AM