{"id":4179,"date":"2007-02-23T10:05:21","date_gmt":"2007-02-23T18:05:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bradblog.com\/?p=4179"},"modified":"2007-02-22T22:49:56","modified_gmt":"2007-02-23T06:49:56","slug":"sl-trib-cost-for-utah-presidential-primary-balloons-from-850k-to-34-million-due-to-new-electronic-voting-machines","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/?p=4179","title":{"rendered":"SL TRIB: Cost for Utah Presidential Primary &#8216;Balloons&#8217; from $850k to $3.4 MILLION(!) Due to New Electronic Voting Machines"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Utah wants to hold a Presidential Primary Election. But they seem to have <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sltrib.com\/search\/ci_5263963\">run into a new snag<\/a>&#8230;<\/p>\n<div class=\"media\">Gov. Jon Huntsman Jr. has pushed for a Western States Presidential Primary to be held on Feb. 5. Arizona and New Mexico will also hold a primary election on that day and other Western states are considering it. <\/p>\n<p>The Legislature has previously set aside $850,000 to cover the costs. With the new electronic voting machines, that bill has ballooned to $3.4 million.<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Oh, well. What was that they were saying about these systems saving the taxpayer money?<\/p>\n<p>(<i>Hat-tip to the Utah Election Official who brought this to our attention. Bless you. And good luck.<\/i>)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Utah wants to hold a Presidential Primary Election. But they seem to have run into a new snag&#8230; Gov. Jon Huntsman Jr. has pushed for a Western States Presidential Primary to be held on Feb. 5. Arizona and New Mexico will also hold a primary election on that day and other Western states are considering [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"ep_exclude_from_search":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[],"coauthors":[],"class_list":["post-4179","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-utah","bb-type-bradblog"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4179","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4179"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4179\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4179"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4179"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4179"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcoauthors&post=4179"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}