FC: Voteauction.com will be shut down, from A.Pressman

[Declan McCullagh <declan () well com>]

[For background, see: http://www.cluebot.com/search.pl?query=voteauction.com
I suggested (http://www.politechbot.com/p-01407.html) this might happen.
So it'll have to be voteauction.eu or somesuch or an IP address instead. 
I'm not sure what real effect this has on vote buyers (or sellers). --Declan]

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Date: Fri, 20 Oct 2000 10:15:48 -0400
Subject: the standard on voteauction shut down
From: Aaron Pressman <apressman () thestandard com>
To: Declan McCullagh <Declan () well com>

 http://www.thestandard.com/article/display/0,1151,19528,00.html
October 19, 2000
Voteauction to Lose Domain Name
After a court defeat in Illinois, the site that enables people to sell their
presidential votes faces a shutdown.
By Ronna Abramson
Illinois became the latest state to be excluded from Voteauction.com, a Web
site that accepts bids for presidential votes, and the auction's days appear
numbered, because its domain name registrar is pulling the plug on the URL.

Cook County Circuit Judge Michael J. Murphy on Wednesday approved a
preliminary injunction against Voteauction, ordering it to shut down or
remove illegal content. The Chicago Board of Election Commissioners filed
the order against the site, charging that it violates state and federal laws
that forbid voters to sell votes.


The site's owner, based in Europe, could not be reached for comment.
Voteauction.com suspended Illinois voting registration on the site Thursday.
It also cut off registration to New York voters after officials there
threatened legal action.


Domain Bank, an accredited domain name registrar in Bethlehem, Pa., that
registered the site, has taken steps to place the domain name on hold, in
response to a request from the California secretary of state. The address
can no longer be accessed on the East Coast and should disappear completely
from the Net in the next couple of days, a Domain Bank spokesman said.




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