Sunday, July 28, 2002
Cost of Bilingual Ballots (CA)
From "Counties gear up to print fall ballots in new languages," San Jose Mercury News: "San Mateo County's Tom said adding Spanish could boost the cost of an election 15 to 40 percent. For the November 2001 election, San Mateo County spent almost $285,000 on printing sample ballots and official ballots, said Terry Flinn, deputy assessor-county clerk-recorder."
Now multiply that cost figure by the number of languages involved: "Alameda County prints election materials in English, Chinese and Spanish -- everything from registration forms to ballots to no-smoking signs at polling places. Brad Clark, the county's registrar of voters, suspects he might have to add Tagalog. Dari and Punjabi are slim possibilities."
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