The tickets, almost 250,000 of them, are meant to be free. But there’s no shortage of people wanting to see Barack Obama inaugurated as President on January 20, and that has forced Democratic Party officials to contact sites like eBay and Craigslist in an attempt to prevent people selling the tickets, which are generally distributed by local congressional offices.
California senior senator Diane Feinstein is planning on contacting the sites, and is also preparing legislation that would make the re-sale of inauguration tickets a criminal offense. She told AP:
