{"id":6667,"date":"2008-11-14T16:21:59","date_gmt":"2008-11-15T00:21:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bradblog.com\/?p=6667"},"modified":"2008-11-15T11:11:42","modified_gmt":"2008-11-15T19:11:42","slug":"daily-voting-news-for-november-14-2008","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/?p=6667","title":{"rendered":"‘Daily Voting News’ For November 14, 2008"},"content":{"rendered":"

Need more proof that the vendors have made elections expensive? The folks in Vigo Co Indiana find themselves having to hold a special election for mayor of Terre Haute, a city of over 44,000 voters. The county would probably pay for the election and then be reimbursed by the city. The last municipal election the county paid for cost $580,000. The cost for one race in the city would probably be something less than that.<\/p>\n

Why so much? The county pays ES&S to manage the voting machines. What would happen if the county or city just decided to print the ballots and hand-count them? Well, the ballots would cost around $0.05 per ballot or around $3500. The cost to hand-count those ballots, based on the cost to hand-count ballots in WA in the 2004 gubernatorial hand-recount would probably be less than $10,000. Why is it that we have these vendors involved in making our elections much more expensive than they should be? …<\/p>\n

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