If you need a support fromotherelected officials, you promise them to vote for their billin exchangefor theirvotes.

Ukrainiandeputies went evenfurther thana simpletrading of votes. They trade their ID cards.If you need my vote, you cantake my ID card and use it to vote for your bill.

Here is an amazing video that shows a session from Ukraine’s Parliament. Click on this link and watch from :29 to 1:00. You will see how a deputy checks in dozens of his colleagues.

Then you will see that a head count (424) is far from an actual number of deputies. Finally, you will see how a deputy who uses several ID cards votes for his own proposed bill. Nonetheless, his billdid not pass the parliament.

Here is another video about logrolling Ukrainian deputies.

If you are interested in reading about logrolling, start here.

Leo A. Krasnozhon is a visiting assistant professor of economics at the University of Texas at Arlington. He is also a fellow at the Property and Environment Research Center in Bozeman, Montana, and Institute for Humane Studies in Arlington, Virginia. His blog can be found here.