Comments on: Election Day: 9:30 a.m. http://amandacoyne.com/politics/election-day-930-a-m/ Tue, 04 Nov 2014 20:35:06 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 By: AH HA http://amandacoyne.com/politics/election-day-930-a-m/#comment-51407 Tue, 04 Nov 2014 20:35:06 +0000 http://amandacoyne.com/?p=7811#comment-51407 Turn out looks quite high at the Juneau Valley polling locations. I checked at 0945 this morning and was surprised to see the parking lot at one of the polling places more than half full. Election workers at that location reported that business has been “Very Busy all morning”.

How about that! You can get people out to vote… Something in the neighborhood of $70 million was spent in Alaska for this election with 50 million of that just for the senate race.

Alaska Division of elections shows the number of registered voters in the state as being 509,011 and that translates into $137 per vote if you get them all. My guess is that even with very heavy turnout only about sixty percent will actually vote. So effectively, something like $229.00 was spent for every vote cast in Alaska.

Wouldn’t you rather they just mailed you a check?

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