DUers could you check something out?

[hedda_foil]

The Nevada Secretary of State's office is quoting a bizarre $500,000 rate for a recount of the presidential race there. Can anybody quickly find a reference to a specific cost for a statewide recount there in the past?

It's probably a wild goose chase but worth a try.

Thanks,
Hedda

[whistle]

1. Washington State is demanding $750,000.00 to do the recount

...for the governors race and it is only 42 votes apart. Something is rotten in the United States.

[pk_du]

2. In 1998 , the Reid/Ensign Senate race recount only cost 59K

<snip>

Although Ensign paid $59,108 to the secretary of state to cover the county costs, the two candidates also had to pay their own costs to monitor the recount.

<snip>

http://www.reviewjournal.com/lvrj_home/1998/Dec-10-Thu-1998/news/10213062.html