Wisconsinwatch.org.... Between $45 and $52 for each vote cast in Wisconsin recall races.

Bill Lueders


Now that Wisconsin’s summer bout of recall madness has ended, let’s run the numbers.

About 769,000 votes were cast in the state’s eight primary and nine general elections for state Senate, according to unofficial results.

The Wisconsin Democracy Campaign, a nonpartisan watchdog group, estimates that total spending on the races by special interest groups and (to a much lesser extent) the candidates’ campaigns will fall between $35 million and $40 million.

That breaks down to somewhere between $45 and $52 for each vote cast.

But the campaigns, waged in TV markets that went well beyond the geographic boundaries of the recall districts, had an impact beyond the votes they helped sway. Voters all over the state were exposed to a glut of toxic messages, in which public servants were painted as public enemies.


http://www.wisconsinwatch.org/2011/08/17/45-a-vote-and-for-what/


Bill Lueders is the Money and Politics Project director at the Wisconsin Center for Investigative Journalism. The project, a partnership of the Center and MapLight, is supported by the Open Society Institute.



...kinda hard for me to wrap my brain 'round that.

http://www.outsidethebeltway.com/outside-money-pouring-in-to-wisconsin-recall-elections/


Good question!

Thank gawd the voting machines can't be bought, or we'd be in real trouble, eh?

Shoot, if the machines were not hack proof, we'd see republicans getting elected.
But lookie there, dems actually won two or three seats back, and that only because the kooks voted out were giving the finger to the people!

Spend a lot of time in my state do ya?

wants some of the outcomes from the spring election investigated..


.Democratic Wisconsin Congresswoman Tammy Baldwin has reportedly asked U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder to start a federal investigation into the questionable handling of voting records and the tactics used to count them by the state's Waukesha County clerk Kathy Nickolaus. Wisconsin's Supreme Court contest has been seen by many as a referendum on the politics of Republican Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker, and close to 1.5 million voters -- an unprecedented amount -- turned out. Holder is currently looking into it.

Read more: http://digitaljournal.com/article/305635#ixzz1VOxY35sv

I love Flybynight's solution to count them.

...And I fully understand issues of complex ballot concerns. There are ways to address it.