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My basic math for hand counting. Say 700k people x 80% turnout = 560k ballots. A bi-partisan team of two could probably count 1,000 ballots easily in 4 hours. 560 teams x 2 people = 1120 people: x 4 hours = 4480 hours; x $15.00 per hour (which is more than election judges were paid) =$67,200. Round it up to $100k. A drop in the bucket compared to the machines. That's one election. 6 year contract... substantially less than $7 million. Probably less than $1 million. Just sayin'...
Scariest part is with those amounts of money, there's plenty to go around for kick-backs and corruption. Might be harder to get rid of machines on that basis.
My basic math for hand counting. Say 700k people x 80% turnout = 560k ballots. A bi-partisan team of two could probably count 1,000 ballots easily in 4 hours. 560 teams x 2 people = 1120 people: x 4 hours = 4480 hours; x $15.00 per hour (which is more than election judges were paid) =$67,200. Round it up to $100k. A drop in the bucket compared to the machines. That's one election. 6 year contract... substantially less than $7 million. Probably less than $1 million. Just sayin'...
No more machines, no general mail-in ballots, hand count, one day voting, ID,
Scariest part is with those amounts of money, there's plenty to go around for kick-backs and corruption. Might be harder to get rid of machines on that basis.
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