A New Strategy: Vote Swapping

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Fear that casting a ballot for Green Party candidate Ralph Nader will only benefit Texas Gov. George W. Bush has prompted a new election strategy: exchanging votes.

The tactic behind three recently created Web sites—www.voteexchange.org, www.nadertrader.org and www.voteswap2000.com—is to match Nader voters in swing states with supporters of Vice President Al Gore in nonswing states where the outcome is all but certain, and have them trade votes.

Steve Yoder, a registered Demo-crat who voted for Nader in 1996, started voteexchange.org



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