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Students at NYU Would Trade Right to Vote for Free Tuition, iPod

by Rob Walker | November 15, 2007 at 12:33 pm

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I honestly don't think I could give up my vote for tuition. I know that's a fair bit of money (a few thousand, at the very least) but I like to think my right to vote is worth more than that. Likewise a million dollars for the lifetime thing...though I'd definitely take a million dollars for one year of not voting.

Two-thirds say they'll do it for a year's tuition. And for a few, even an iPod touch will do.

That's what NYU students said they'd take in exchange for their right to vote in the next presidential election, a recent survey by an NYU journalism class found.

Only 20 percent said they'd exchange their vote for an iPod touch.

But 66 percent said they'd forfeit their vote for a free ride to NYU. And half said they'd give up the right to vote forever for $1 million.

But they also overwhelmingly lauded the importance of voting.