The Michigan Republican Party has demanded that filmmaker Michael Moore be prosecuted for offering fresh underwear and and stale soup to college students in exchange for their promise to vote.

The Fahrenheit 9/11 director has been on the road with his 60-city Slacker Uprising Tour -- with their Slacker Oath: 'Pick nose! Pick butt! Pick Kerry!' -- hitting 20 battleground states, imploring 'slackers' who usually don't vote to get out to the polls this year and make a difference in the presidential race. During each program Moore invites 'habitual non-voters' on stage to pledge to vote, presenting them gag prizes for their troubles.

'We want everyone to participate in this year's election, but not because they were bribed or coerced by the likes of Michael Moore,' said an overzealous Greg McNeilly, executive director of the state Republican Party.

The bribes in question were a 3 pack of clean underwear for the guys, and some stale Ramen soup for the ladies.

The controversial documentaries couldn't help but point out on his website (www.michaelmore.com) that the Republicans seemed to have missed the 'satire' of his giving underwear and food to get young people to vote.

'It's ironic that Republicans have no problem with allowing assault weapons out on our streets,' Moore wrote in an open letter, 'yet they don't want to put clean underwear in the hands of our slacker youth.'

On Wednesday, Isabella County Prosecutor Larry Burdick denied the Michigan state GOP's request to file charges against Michael Moore. The party had been to four county prosecutors looking to file charges on Tuesday, citing an election law provision that prohibits a person from contracting with another for something of value in exchange for votes.

'Although we are a small prosecutor's office, we are extremely busy prosecuting serious criminal activity,' Burdick said in a letter addressed to the executive director of the state Republican Party, Greg McNeilly. '...I choose to devote our resources to prosecuting those who are delivering cocaine to our young people rather than underwear.'

Moore points out that the state of Michigan had reported that over 100,000 young people recently registered to vote, 'a record that no one saw coming.'

'So, the Republican Party,' Moore writes, 'to show their gratitude that so many young people will now be involved in our system, has demanded that I be sent to jail for trying to 'bribe' students to vote... the Republicans seem more interested in locking me up for trying to encourage people to participate in our democracy than locking up Bin Laden for his attacks on our democracy.'

Moore ends with this one last bit of advice for all voters... 'Stay strong, stay slacker, and please remember to turn the underwear inside out every three days. As for the noodles, add boiling water, stir.'