# Vote to win a a million dollars?

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/vote-to-win-a-a-million-dollars/357993>\
**Category:** In My Humble Opinion\
**Created:** [May 24, 2006, 1:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/vote-to-win-a-a-million-dollars/357993 "2006-05-24T01:24:59Z")\
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**Author:** ![KlondikeGeoff](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/3e96dc/32.png) [@KlondikeGeoff](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/KlondikeGeoff)\
**Post date:** [May 24, 2006, 1:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/vote-to-win-a-a-million-dollars/357993/1 "2006-05-24T01:24:59Z")

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Bill in the AZ legislature to make a lottery whereby one voter in the primary and one in the general election can win a million bucks.

I always think drives to get people to register and vote are counter productive. I really don’t want people voting who have little interest or who are too lazy.

Now we’ll thave he the state’s gamblers all flocking to the polls. Is this a good thing?

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**Author:** ![Cunctator](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/43a26b/32.png) [@Cunctator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cunctator)\
**Post date:** [May 24, 2006, 1:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/vote-to-win-a-a-million-dollars/357993/2 "2006-05-24T01:35:20Z")

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Sounds pretty sad to me.

Would the voter actually have to cast a valid vote to be eligible to go into the million dollar draw? Or just turn up at the polling booth and scribble on the ballot paper?

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**Author:** ![Alice\_The\_Goon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ed8c4c/32.png) [@Alice\_The\_Goon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Alice_The_Goon)\
**Post date:** [May 24, 2006, 1:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/vote-to-win-a-a-million-dollars/357993/3 "2006-05-24T01:43:27Z")

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I just saw this on the news. It’ll probably go the way of the proposal to pay us for waiting at the MVD. It was going to be something like $60 for every half-hour we waited. It failed. I could have made hundreds of dollars last time I was there. :mad:

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**Author:** ![treis](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/bc79bd/32.png) [@treis](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/treis)\
**Post date:** [May 24, 2006, 1:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/vote-to-win-a-a-million-dollars/357993/4 "2006-05-24T01:48:27Z")

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Sounds like a plan by crafty democrats to increase their chances of winning by bringing in more poor voters.

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**Author:** ![NurseCarmen](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/5daacb/32.png) [@NurseCarmen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/NurseCarmen)\
**Post date:** [May 24, 2006, 2:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/vote-to-win-a-a-million-dollars/357993/5 "2006-05-24T02:26:27Z")

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