ABSTRACT
This chapter examines the most substantial objection to commodifying votes, which holds that the commodification of votes would corrupt democracy by preventing democracies from implementing policies which best serve citizens’ interests, or which best reflect their preferences. This chapter challenges such arguments by showing, first, that paying people to vote is morally superior to compulsory voting, second, that certain forms of vote commodification do not run afoul of this objection, and third, that the objections to vote commodification turn out to apply also to many uncommodified votes.
