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November 4, 2008 1:00 PM

Sex-toy store giving away freebies to voters

About 20 people were queued up outside Babeland, a sex-toy store on Capitol Hill, before it opened at 11 a.m. to get in on a store promotion -- a free toy for anyone who says they've voted.

The hundreds of voters who have inundated -- and overwhelmed -- the store today get to choose between the Maverick, a $20 value, or the Silver Bullet, which sells for $15.

Sure, why not.

"There's been so much anxiety lately -- about the economy, about the election -- we wanted to do something fun to lift people's moods a little bit," said Pamela Doan, Babeland's public relations manager. "And the names of the two toys gave us an opportunity to do a creative play on words."

Doan said the store almost assuredly will run out of toys before today is over, but will have more of the toys tomorrow. The non-partisan promotion runs through next Tuesday, but supplies, as they say, are limited.

-- Stuart Eskenazi, Seattle Times staff reporter

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This is really cool. But I thought offering incentives to vote was illegal? Wish I would have known about this sooner! Posted on November 4, 2008 at 2:02 PM by Notorious R.E.D. Jump to comment

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