Fixing Bugfix Petitions

Software petitions are nice and all, but they don't really mean much. Sure it's great to be able to say 'X' number of people have signed a petition, but it doesn't have much impact because it takes very little effort to say "me too". However, it's much easier for people to think about things in terms of money - and that's how petitions could be "fixed" (no, not the bad connotation of the word "fixed" :)

When I moved recently, I used the online USPS page to switch my address. The site charges you a $1 fee, probably just to lower the number of people that would try to hack the system. So petitions could do the same thing, except it would give the money to charities instead of the post office!

Someone (not me, since I'm not a web guy) could set up a site that would keep track of the different bug petitions and allow users to vote by making donations to specific ones. It suddenly becomes much easier to grasp _how_much_ people want a bug fixed, because they are donating money that either wouldn't have been donated otherwise, or could have been associated with a different bug.

Any thoughts?