Re: Legalizing Thai vote selling and vote buying

"Tchiowa" wrote ...
pluto wrote:
Legalizing Thai vote selling and vote buying
||Yesterday 10:09 PM|Colonel Jeruhttp://jeroo.wordpress.com/2007/11/23/legalizing-thai-vote-selling-an...
An official survey found that 64.6%
(http://www.nationmultimedia.com/2007/11/22/opinion/opinion_30056956.p...
Thais will sell their vote. With such overwhelming majority of the Thai electorate predisposed to cashing their votes, why not just remove all pretenses

While this article is "tongue in cheek" there is a point behind it.
There was a letter in the Nation this morning (Saturday) pointing out that vote buying goes on everywhere, including in the US and Europe.
Like the letter writer, I fail to see the difference in someone saying "I'll give you 500 baht to vote for me" and someone saying "I'll give
you a 500 baht benefit *after* you vote for me".

Two differences.
The former is a tangible payment, the latter is but a promise.
While the rich can buy the votes of the poor, the poor can buy nobody else's votes, neither rich nor poor.


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