ABSTRACT
My aim in this paper is to explore the moral conditions surrounding the casting of a vote. I begin by offering a paradigmatic case of what I take to represent casting a vote in a morally impermissible fashion, the bribed vote. I begin from the assumption that voting for a candidate or position because one was bribed to do so is morally wrong. The bribed vote is then used as motivation to look critically at other types of voting that typically do not garner similar moral condemnation. I argue that a great deal of voting is morally equivalent with the bribed vote. Throughout I will limit my moral observations to voting that takes place in large-scale democratic elections.
