How about $50 bucks per head to anyone who shows up at a polling site?
It's half of what was spent per voter in the recent special election for Pennsylvania's 24th State Senate District.
From a story in The Doylestown Intelligencer by reporter Margaret Gibbons:
What could you do with $103.88 jingling in your pocket?Read the full story at the link below:
Too bad votes cannot be bought.
The $103.88 is what was spent on each voter who cast a ballot in the Sept. 29 special election to fill the vacant 24th District state Senate seat.
A total of $827,118 was spent on the election, which attracted 7,962 voters, just 12.8 percent of those eligible.
This total includes $174,546 that state taxpayers have to pay for staging the special election on its own day rather than holding it at the same time as November's general election. It also includes the $652,572 spent by the three candidates running in the election, won by Marlborough Republican Bob Mensch.
The $174,546 taxpayers' tab covers the state's own costs of $29,724. The state will also pay the costs incurred by the four counties in the 24th District: Montgomery County, $46,949; Bucks County, $34,365; Northampton County, 47,805; and, Lehigh County, $15,702.
The decision to hold a special election to fill the seat vacated by Republican Rob Wonderling, who stepped down July 28 to head the Greater Philadelphia Chamber of Commerce, drew bipartisan ire from county election officials and from Democratic leaders.
PhillyBurbs.com: Tab for election clears $100 a voter
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