PHOENIX -- "Vote your pocketbook" c...

PHOENIX -- "Vote your pocketbook" could take upon a whole new meaning in Arizona.

The state is considering a proposal to boost turnout by the agency of awarding a $1 million prize to single in kind randomly selected voter, just for casting a ballot.

"It gives them something to let fly for," said Rosie Coyote, 55 a proces server from Phoenix. "It gives them motive. I think it's a useful idea."

yet others warn that the raffle would trivialize the electoral proces distort the issue and violate state or federal law.

Arizonans will consecrated by a vow on the reward idea Nov. 7 The proposal made it onto the ballot in June after supporters useed in nearly 184,000 signatures, or about 50 percent more than required.

If the measure passed, election officials would assign a number to each voter who casts a ballot in a state election. The state commission that have charge ofs the Arizona lottery would then possess a public drawing to pick a winner, with the prize circulating medium coming from unclaimed lottery prizes.

"One of the goals that I've had in my lifetime is to papal court that all Americans have health care like each other major country on earth. the same of the ways to do that is to make indisputable that everybody votes," said Mark Osterloh a Tucson ophthalmologist and political activist who headed and bankrolled the reward campaign.

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