Mail-in elections are expensive. How expensive? A brief look at recent Anchorage mayoral election turnouts and how much they cost the taxpayers:
2012 – 71,099 cards cast, election cost taxpayers $400,000
2015 – 70,650 cards cast, election cost taxpayers $451,000
2018 – 79,295 cards cast, election cost taxpayers $1,040,300
Additional ballots cast in 2018 over ballots cast in 2015: 8,645
Additional cost to taxpayers: $589,300
Cost to taxpayers for votes exceeding the 70,650 cast in the 2015 election: $68 dollars per vote.
Bottom line: A massive increase in cost and a small increase in turnout coupled with a heightened risk of fraud? The municipality could have hired four more police officers instead.
Liberals spare no expense for potential voter fraud. Integrity and money matter not. It’s all aboiut advancing their agenda.
Start-up costs. If we had to buy brand new election equipment for poll-based voting, how much would that have cost? Vote by mail saves us money over time, not immediately.
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