"There has been a push in some places (including Los Angeles) to offer a similar reward for voting as you can receive from filling out a bracket: pride in doing your civic duty money."

Democracy: Still slightly more popular than college basketball!

"There has been a push in some places (including Los Angeles) to offer a similar reward for voting as you can receive from filling out a bracket: pride in doing your civic duty money. Clearly, most people are filling out brackets not because they have any idea how Marquette stacks up against Belmont but because they get $50 if they have better guesses than their co-workers.* LA's theory is that if you treat a ballot like a lottery ticket, there will be even more ballots cast."