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Tuesday, November 6, 2007

A Note on Voter Turnout

Well, I just returned from my polling place. Things seemed slow. I think it is still verboten for election judges to make public announcements of how many have shown up so far during the day, but I can read a public counter and I was vote number 67. I am not aware of the pre-registered total.

One of the judges was bemoaning the cost per vote. I was an election judge in elections both slow and busy and know the fixed costs are pretty much the same. A busy election may result in an hour or so overtime for five or six minimum-wage judges and maybe some overtime downtown, but almost everything else is pretty well fixed.

There is a lot of hypocrisy favoring big election turnouts, but I have never wanted them big just for the sake of having them big. I have wanted and worked for big election turnouts of like-minded people. After all, what good does it do me or the people on my side if the other side shows up?

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