According to news stories, $21,000,000 was spent to boost the Democratic and Republican nominees for Pennsylvania’s special election earlier this week, which amounts to almost $100 per vote cast.
According to news stories, $21,000,000 was spent to boost the Democratic and Republican nominees for Pennsylvania’s special election earlier this week, which amounts to almost $100 per vote cast.
More special elections ??? — to increase the GDP and bankrupt all special interest gangsters ???
We appreciate and protect our freedoms in expenditures in public elections as US citizens.
Do you want to see more competitive ideas and better representation? Then demonstrate your team abilities under the appropriate election systems.
The United Coalition has been demonstrating the teamwork and collaboration under pure proportional representation (PPR) for more than twenty-three consecutive years and PPR works very well to make elections fair despite financial concerns.
The United Coalition isn’t affected by others who want freedom but freedom with unity is more satisfying to our team than any pluralistic election district that exists.
http://www.usparliament.org/ucc.html
Wow, talk about inefficient. We Greens have been spending about $1-$2 per vote here in the Illinois 12th Congressional District, and we’ve gotten over 5% of the vote for three elections in a row now.
Libertarian Drew Gray Miller apparently earned nearly 1,400 votes (well over double the 627-vote margin of victory) after spending $2,000 on his campaign (less than $1.50 per vote).
Pennsylvania Special Election Results (New York Times):
https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2018/03/13/us/elections/results-pennsylvania-house-special-election.html
Libertarian Candidate Embraces His Role As Spoiler In Pennsylvania Election (Huffington Post):
https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/drew-miller-libertarian-spoiler-special-election_us_5aa98129e4b0600b82ffaa03
About 50 marginal of 435 USA Rep gerrymander seats.
About 20 marginal of 100 USA Sen gerrymander seats.
How many $$$ thousands/millions/billions per vote in 2018/2020 ???
At stake — about $$$ 2-5 TRILLION of the USA GDP —
NET Tax looters vs NET Tax slaves.
What is missed here is that most of that spending was to deter votes and depress turnout. The effectiveness of negative campaigning is in demoralizing ones opponents potential supporters, leaving them conflicted and less likely to vote. My guess is that about $20 was spent for each deterred vote.