What if they gave a repuke primary and nobody came? It could happen in New Haven!! [View all]

[KamaAina]

http://www.newhavenindependent.org/index.php/archives/entry/each_gop_vote_will_cost_dearly/

Under state law, New Haven must spend over $25,000 for next month’s Republican presidential primary to hire 128 people to work for 16 hours at 32 polling places—including places where only one lonely Republican has cast a ballot in the past....

In the last Republican presidential primary, in 2008, exactly one Republican voted all day at West Hills’ polling place. At polling stations in the Hill, Fair Haven, Newhallville and West River, between one and five Republicans voted. A total of 898 Republicans voted citywide. The polls were open from 6 a.m. to 8 p.m....

Citywide New Haven has only 2,458 registered Republicans, according to figures compiled Thursday. (It has 45,549 registered Democrats, 64,302 voters overall.)...

New Haven GOP Town Chairman Rick Elser offered a solution: Make everyone come downtown to the Hall of Records to vote in a Republican-only primary. And pay for rides for anyone who needs them. That’d probably be a lot cheaper, he noted, than paying all those workers all day in 32 polling places.



If the bus service weren't so crappy after 6 PM, I would never have left.