From the land of i-banks and Olsen twins, the NYU newspaper, Washington Square News, has a story about a poll they did about what students would want in return for giving up their right to vote in the next presidential election. 20% said they'd drop their right to vote for an iPod Touch. 66% for a free ride to NYU (aka $188,532). In exchange for never voting again, HALF of students said that it would cost only one million dollars. So lets say that the average age of respondents was 20. Assuming they'll live till 80, that's 60 years of voting. Even if they only vote every 4 years, thats 15 presidential elections, or only 66k dollars per election.

Interestingly, 90% of students who would give up their vote for money also called voting "very important" or at least "somewhat important." Personally, I'd like the crosstabs on this, but maybe I'm just a nerd.  Then again, I just want you to vote, f*cker!