Perth Amboy evening news., 1906-01-15
ELECTION
EXPENSIVE.
County Collector Makes Report
Giving Details of the Ex-
penditures.
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% the EVENING NEWS:
Nv BRUNSWICK, Jan. b.
last election cost the county of
lesex $11,S20.69, according to
last report of David Serviss as
kty collector. The official returns
that Sheriff Andrew S. Church
we'd 9,093 votes, and William H..
ckenboss, the democratic nomi-
1884 votes. There were 1902
ihitjon votes cast and 1903 for
Halist-Labor ticket, making a
of 1852 votes polled.
cry time a voter cast his ballot
- saw it go into the ballot box or
every time the crank of a voting ma
chine was turned and a vote regis
tered it cost the county seventy
The heAiest expense connected
with an election is in the payment
of the clerks and members of the sew
eral district boards of elections, the
renting of places for the holding of
the election and getting the booths
up. The county collectors report
shows that in this city it cost $205.-
ga to cart and put up the booths and
make some repairs to the voting ma
chimes while in Perth Amboy the
cos was $231.06. Then there was a
charge of $52.93 for stationery,
chairs and tables for some of the
election boards. The total amount
paid to the officers outside of the
above items was ~$8,064.2S.
Another item that eats up a few
hundred dollars is the printing of the
election tickets. The law prescribes
that the number of tickets furnished
shall be $50 for every one hundred
or fraction of one hundred of the to-
tai votes cast in each election district
at the last preceding election for the
members of the assembly. This
number shall be supplied in each dis
trict for each political party.
At the last election there were 1877
200 ballots supplied for the voters of
MiddleseX Or enough to supply every
voter with eleven ballots and still
leave 11,49S ballots to spare. The
cost of printing these ballots was
$5S3.71 or not quite SO a thousand.
Then there were party emblems
printed for the voting machines at a
cost of $7.3S and certificates and
blanks for the district and county
boards secured at a cost of ~$124.49.
Three new ballot boxes and tubes had
to be provided for this election at a
cost of SOL.
The cost of the blue envelopes for
the ballots amounted to $1S6.3S.
There were 1854 of these envelopes
supplied and printed the law requir-
ing that the number of envelopes
shall be double the number of all the
votes cast in each election district at
the last preceding election. The
county paid not quite $3.50 a thous-
and for the envelopes.
The sheriff and county clerk also
get q share of the proceeds for their
Iabors. The sheriff is allowed a dol
lar for every polling place for post
ing the election proclamations. There
are AZ polls in this county and he re-
ceived SAT-. The county clerk also
received $705 for distributing the
election tickets, books, etc, through
out the county.
Then the fact that an election is to
be held and what officers are to be
chosen and the dates of the sittings
of the election board have to be pub
lished in six newspapers. The cost
for this was $2S6.32.
The County Board of Elections al
so has to be paid for appointing the
district election boards, the challeng-
.ers and ~canvassing the vote as well
as correcting the registry lists. Their
expenses this year with the allow
ance for their services amounted to
$5S5.50. The county clerk gets $3.50
for acting as clerk to the canvassing
board as he tabulates all the returns
and he also received $40 acting as
clerk for the two days the court sat
correct the registers.
There were also Sc registry book
asses purchased at a cost of $3.50
md all of these items make up the
|otal cost as given above.
There were 5,124 votes cast for
sheriff in this city so that the cost of
the election in this city was about
s3,5S7. In Perth Amboy the vote
for sheriff was 2,914 so that the cost
hara woc about 60 040