The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-01-20
Official Figures Out on Ex-
pense in Counties.
More Than Double the General
Election Costs.
SHAWNEE'S GOOD SHOWING
Individual Figures Here Lowest
i'm the State.
More Than $4,000 for 1O2
Counties Last August.

Every vote cast in the 1915 state
wide primaries cost SIS cents, ac-
cording to official figures from every
county in Kansas. The primary ex-
pense for individual votes is more
than double the general election ex-
pense of 2436 cents for 1916. These
interesting figures were compiled by
]. T. Botkin, secretary of state, and
were announced today from his office
in the state house.
In twenty-three counties, votes in
the primary cost the county more
than 81 each. In three counties the
cost was more than 81 vote, while
two counties spent more than YOU
per vote and one county-Grant-
spent S3.376 a vote. Just three coun-
ties spent more than so cents a vote
in the general election. Only one
county spent more than rs cents ana
none spent as high as a dollar a vote.
Botkin's figures show that Kansas
counties spent $122,93S.91 for the
primary election in August, when
23S,319 men and women voted. Cen
eral election costs were $31 900 great
| 393,275 more votes cast in November
than in August. The November cleo
| ton expense is given by Botkin at
$153,SS0.92, with 631,594 votes cast.
| The cost per individual primary vote
was more than 27 cents greater-or
{ an individual general election vote.
! Shawnee County Record.
| Shawnee county's expense for indi-
vidual votes was the lowest in the
state. The record shows that primary
votes in this county cost 23.5 cents
| each. But the county cast II,
votes at a total expense of S2,723.02
| Wyandotte county. which held her pei
car ita primary cost to ST. cents, spent
s6,30S.36 for her primaries. The
Sedgwick county primaries cost So
| 141.49,' while the primaries in Reno
| each of the 2, 472 votes cast in the pri-
| mary.
| Grant county's expense for a pri-
mary was S293.76, or 1886 for eacf
of the eighty-seven primary votes cas-
in the county Cheyenne county spent
| $1,057.55 for her reform primary, OIL
| $3.50 each for votes. Sherman coun-
tvs primary cost s1,946.19, or small
item like $2.05l for each of the 94s
votes cast
Repeal Bill Killed.
| This week the elections committed
in the house of representatives voted
! to kill bill by Noble of Labette to re-
peal the primary law. Samson OF
Cove county reported the committee
decision. The records from Cove
county show that 825 people voted ir
the last primary, which cost the coun-
! ty $620.05, or a trifle more than II
cents a vote. The primary vote was
less than half the general election vote
in Cove county and the IS cents pei
capita primary expense compared with
| a per capita general election expense
of % cents. In Cheyenne county the
primary vote was one-fourth the gen
| eral election vote.
Ford county Si tir,,eS
votes in the election as in the primary
She spent S1.057 a vote for primar.
votes, against % cents each for gen.
eral election votes. Grant county
which cast 81 votes in the primary
cast 4S7 votes in the general election
Kiowa county cast 347 primary vote.
| and 2.071 general election ballots. In
dividual expense for primary votes il
| Kiowa was $1.757, while the election
] cost 35 cents for each vote cast