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To: Katelew who wrote (56424)	3/27/2008 2:23:33 PM
From: JohnM	Respond to of 545097

How does private donors paying for boxes of ballots slant the outcome of a vote? I assume the notion was that the state would pay nothing for a revote, thus private sources would have to found to fund it all. In that, case it would be a great deal more than ballot boxes that would need to be funded. Buildings have to be opened, staff paid to be at the polling places, mailings go out to voters to tell them where to vote, security set up, the state has to approve some of it, etc. I know little about this but I expect the list that has to be done and paid for is rather long. My concern is if we start privately funding elections in this country, we are one short step away from them withdrawing their funds if an unacceptable candidate is on the ballot.