[EL] Akin and ballot costs

[Jerald Lentini]

A related thought: The statute says that the candidate may withdraw if
there are no additional costs or "if the candidate agrees to pay any
printing or reprinting costs."

Setting aside the question of why the candidate should have to pay *printing
* costs at all (*reprinting* costs make sense, but would it be reasonable
to saddle him with initial printing costs for materials not yet produced at
the time of the withdrawal?), would this language preclude another
organization or individual from covering the cost of a reprinting, since it
specifies that "the candidate" must agree to pay? Would agreeing to cover
the cost of reprinting have to be viewed as a contribution to Akin?

On Tue, Aug 21, 2012 at 3:42 PM, David Epstein <david.l.epstein at gmail.com>wrote:

> 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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