All rights reserved. Campaign costs include printing, rallies, postage, office expenses, TV and radio advertising, travel, mailing lists, etc., all in an effort to create an image for the candidate, and encourage his or her supporters to cast a ballot on election day. The focus of all of this attention and expense, is that single day in November, when candidates are separated into winners and losers.
Election day brings with it a flurry of activity.
Bipartisan officials are stationed at the polls to oversee the voting process. Committeepeople, ward leaders, campaign staff members and interested private citizens station themselves on the streets within the legal distance from the voting area, to distribute leaflets and talk to the voters. Stringers from the press collect the tallies and phone in the results. Most of these individuals are paid, albeit often nominally, for their services in the election process. The vote tabulation procedure itself incurs considerable expenditures.