Under the plausible slogan "Bringing capitalism and democrazy closer together!" and in time with the US presidential elections in 2000 (W. Bush vs. Al Gore), American citizens were offered the possibility to auction off their vote via an Internet platform called "[V]ote-auction.com"* to those bidding highest.

In the most enviable way this project thus reflected on the deep entanglement of capital and (voting) power. While the individual selling of votes is strictly forbidden in all the states of the US as well as on the federal state level, this prohibition is constantly being undermined by massive (legal) campaign contributions of big companies.

The response in the mass media was overwhelming. Various US state attorneys announced a total of 13 legal proceedings against ubermorgen.com. In four US states actual law-suits were started (Missouri, Illinois, Massachusetts and Wisconsin) and temporary injunctions were issued. Because of a decision of a court in Illinois the website’s domain was blocked twice, but it was brought back online in time for the election under a slightly changed name.

www.vote-auction.net

UBERMORGEN.COM Is and artist duo that was founded in Vienna, Austrian in 1999 by Hans Bernhard (founder of etoy) and lizvlx.UBERMORGEN.COM is one of the most uncatchable identities – controversial and iconoclast – of the contemporary European techno-fineart avantgarde.ubermorgen is a German word for “ The day after tomorrow “ or “super – tomorrow “.