ESA Pushing for Gamers to Vote

Grooves writes "The Entertainment Software Association (ESA) has announced the first voter registration drive aimed at gamers, called 'Play for Real: Gamer Voter Drive'. The drive is being managed by the ESA's Video Game Voters Network, an attempt at growing a grassroots community around the issue of games legislation. From the article, 'Lowenstein would like to boost these figures by convincing younger voters that their voice will have an influence over issues they care about, particularly efforts to create new laws restricting video games.'"

I can just see the bumper stickers...

[ackthpt]

I can just see the bumper stickers...

• I'm a Guild Member and I vote
• End Violent Game Player Discrimination
• If I Don't Rule The World With An Iron Fist, Who Will?
• Virtual People Have Rights, Too
• Kazola For President
• "A PS2 in every living room and a rusting bicycle in every garage"
• Elect Jack Thompson - Then Impeach His Ass
  • Keep Politics Out of Games
  • Keep Games Out of Politics
• Speak Softly And Carry A Bat'leth
• My Child Is 60th Level In World Of Warcraft School

It bears repeating

[mcmonkey]

If voting worked, it would be illegal.

Voting rules

[robpoe]

Yeah, and the cheat code for the voting booth is

Up, Up, Down, Down, Left, Right, Left, Right, B, A, VOTE

That way the machine will access it's hidden firmware and convert ALL the votes to the person of your choice..

Everyone knows...

[aliendisaster]

Voting doesn't work anyway. The Illuminati makes all the decisions about who's in charge. And if they votes are different than what they want, they create "voting errors".

voting

[Anonymous Coward]

votekick bush

if that fails, we might be forced to:
votemap canada

Re:Vote or Die, P-Diddy

[russ1337]

The typical voting in gaming is whether or not to boot troublesome players out of the game

I'd LOVE to see the kick-vote system in politics...

Dick Cheney has initiated a Vote to kick George (Press page-up to Vote Yes, Page Down for No)

Get those polls to the gamers!

[Dutchmaan]

Now if you could vote from your game!!! now that would work!

Quest Giver...

!

Vote
Election magistrate wants you to collect information on 6 candidates and return them to him!

Candidate Information 0/6

Rewards:
Voter registration Card

Re:Vote or Die, P-Diddy

[FriendOfBagu]

Except Cheney would already have been kicked for team-killing.

Re:It bears repeating

[Jesterboy]

I always liked Winston Churchill's view of Democracy: "Democracy is the worst form of government except from all those other forms that have been tried from time to time."