[osteele]

On the one hand, a lower salary ensures people don't do it for the money. On the other hand, low pay can restrict the candidate to wealthier or higher-income individuals. This is a challenge in deciding out how much to compensate people for service, not just for a one-off such as this but for longer-term and more time-consuming roles as well.

[ryacko]

Usually the argument that not enough money tempts people toward corruption.

[baddox]

Maybe pay each person the same rate they earn in their day job.

[0xfffafaCrash]

So if a person makes millions of dollars a day they get paid millions from taxes but if an unemployed person does the same job they get paid nothing? I'm not sure that's an improvement.

[baddox]

I was imagining there would be a minimum and maximum rate.

[mathgeek]

This only works if they're forced to take unpaid time off for polling, or indeed if they're employed at the time of the election.