NYU undergrads say that for the right price, they would sell their vote. Two thirds would give up their vote for a free ride to NYU. And half said that for $1 million, they'd give up their vote forever.
More than 3,000 undergrads were surveyed for the study, conducted by an NYU journalism class. The study found that "sixty percent of the students who said they'd give up their vote for tuition also described their families' income as upper middle or high."
Not everyone can be bought, though - one undergrad responded that "anyone who'd sell his lifelong right to vote should be deported."
[Src: Most say their vote has a price, Lily Quateman, Washington Square News]
Media Credit: Illustration by Dana Laventure/WSN
1 comment:
Given the way our political system works, most of us would have more political influence with $1 mil. than by casting a vote (though I'm not sure that is what the students were thinking when they answered the question).
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