[EL] Akin and ballot costs

[David Epstein]

But he's running for senate, so don't we have to multiply that number
by Missouri's 9 congressional districts? Or perhaps we should start
with the fact that Missouri has a little over 4 million registered
voters. If the cost per voter of printing new ballots is on the order
of $0.75, then this cost would be prohibitive.

And that's what I'm trying to figure out -- Akin has said today that
he'll stay in the race, but even if he wants to change his mind would
these ballot costs be enough to keep him in anyway?

On Tue, Aug 21, 2012 at 3:31 PM, Joseph Lorenzo Hall <joehall at gmail.com> wrote:
> I'm sure someone could improve this rough back-of-the-envelope
> calculation I'm about to do with real numbers -- I used to be in
> astronomy where a factor of 10 is all that matters! -- but here's a
> likely upper bound:
>
> MO's 2nd Cong. Dist. has about 700k people in it, probably at most 3/4
> are registered voters and ballot costs for a single-page ballot are
> probably $0.75 (or more). So that's 700,000 * 0.75 * 0.75 = $390,000
> (to two significant digits). This is very sensitive to the cost per
> ballot of printing and the fraction of VAP/VEP.
>
> best, Joe
>
> On Tue, Aug 21, 2012 at 3:16 PM, David Epstein
> <david.l.epstein at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> So if Akin withdraws before 5 PM today, he pays nothing and the Missouri GOP
>> central committee picks a replacement.
>>
>> If he drops out between 5:01 PM today and September 25, he needs a court
>> order to do so, pays the costs of printing new ballots, and the Missouri GOP
>> central committee again picks a replacement.
>>
>> Two questions: does anyone know (approximately) what the cost of printing
>> new ballots would be? And what are the details of obtaining the necessary
>> court order?
>>
>> David Epstein
>>
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