FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE -------------------------------------------------------- Vote-auction.com adds new feautres and releases user statistics -------------------------------------------------------- Vienna/Berlin, October 31, 2000 Below you find the latest press release by Vote-auction.com [formerly voteauction.com]. You can also find this press release at http://www.vote-auction.com/pr.htm For any further information feel free to contact pr@vote-auction.com or in urgent cases call +49-175-2066954 or +43 676 930 00 61. ------------------------------------------------------- [V] Voteauction.com adds new features The "Leader of the Election Industry", Vote-auction.com has added various new features http://www.vote-auction.com [] international polls In order to have an even stronger impact on the US- presidential election, Vote-auction.com has released several polls for national and international audiences. Vote-auction.com intends to involve a worldwide audience by polling their preference on Gore-Bush, a community poll will raise the Question wheter Vote-auction.com should be considered legal or Illegal, i.e. [] bidding-cart function In order to use our bidding section we have implemented a 2 click-shopping function with user-verification. This will help to ensure the validity of the bidders and will secure the bidders offer. [] All new message-board To stimulate public reactions from the US but also the International audience, intellectuals, lawyers, workers and all human beeings [] extended press-archive Due to the massive response in the media, we have updated Our press-section to give you broad Information on how Vote-auction.com is featured and discussed in the press. Well over 150 press-clippings have been discovered by Our PR-department. http://www.vote-auction.com/press.htm [] its different because its fundamentally different the implementation of the auctioning-software is currently under heavy development and shall be properly working for the auction, starting Nov. 7th, 2000, 6am EST, ending 9pm PST we expect heavy bidding action on Nov. 7th, the election day. Watch our Polls, watch other Polls, make your decision and participate in spinning this election into your prefered direction. [V] data due to our latest software-update, we can now issue the latest statistical data on sellers and bidders. http://www.vote-auction.com/check.htm *current no. of sellers : 24.564 *current no. of individual bidders : 1.100 *current no. of corporate bidders : 654 *update from October 31st, 2000, 9am CET Vote-auction.com has issued a variety of socio- demographic data and detailed flow-charts of the registered users. [V] The Vote-auction, when and how will it work ? the auctioning software is currently beeing implemented and should be up & properly running on Nov. 7th, 2000, 6am EST. All necessary information will be emailed and issued on the Web-Site prior to the actual auction taking place. We will not be able to issue any technical or any other details on the election-auction and related topics. We recommend anybody to join our platform in order to be part of this revolutionary concept of bringing capitalism and democracy closer together. The Vote-auction.com technical team is working 24/7 to make sure all transactions will be executed secure and within time. [V] vote-auction.com discussed in the russian duma ! vote-auction.com has been informed by an independant source, that the Vote-auction.com platform has been issue in parlamentary discussions in the russian duma. Russian politicians intend to send election observers to the US in order to ensure to the russian population that the US-elections are held under regular conditions. The Russians seem worried about the democratic process In the US and understand the worldwide impact of such Decisions. [] Related links: - FAQ Federal Election Commission http://www.fec.gov/pages/faqs.htm - Russian Duma http://www.duma.gov.ru/ | http://www.duma.ru [V] ex-owner of vote-auction.com claiming hoax ? Wired-news has issued 2 articles about the ex-owner of vote-auction.com claiming this was all a hoax and never intended to work in reality. Vote-auction.com has learned that the ex-owner has been under heavy pressure from federal and state- Authorities over the last weeks. Various critical voices have tried to influence Vote-auction.com in order to discredit the effort to bring this full capitalistic market-place to the american people: -- FSB business: ã...Jay Stanley, an analyst at Forrester Research, doesn't believe that Bernhard plans to turn Voteauction.com into a lasting business..." -- http://www.fsb.com/fortunesb/articles/0,2227,966,00.html -- Wired News: ã ...Deborah Phillips, chair of the Voting Integrity Project... "Satire doesn't usually involve the exchange of money, nor does it usually cross international boundaries or involve international security threats," she said." http://www.wirednews.com/news/politics/0,1283,39770,00.html Vote-auction.com has been purchased by an austrian Holding company for business-purposes. The long-term prospects of this free, large-scaled, global market has stimulated interest and the company will continue to run this platform after Nov, 7th. The first ever public auction for the US-presidental election will take place on Nov. 7th, 2000. For broader information, please visit our Press-archive with well over 150 international and national press- clippings. http://www.vote-auction.com/press.htm For the Vote-auction.com team: Liz Vlx [V]ote-auction.com PR PLEASE NOTE: If you want to access Vote-auction.com via web or mail, please be sure to use the correct domain: pr@vote-auction.com http://www.vote-auction.com We will not be able to receive messages sent to the old address. Thank you. [][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][] [] [] [] [V]ote-auction.com [] [] [] [] pr@vote-auction.com [] [] [] [] The Election Industry Leader - Bringing [] [] Capitalism & Democracy closer together [] [] [] [][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][]