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Primary election cost taxpayers a lot

Now that the primary election is over, it is time to add up the costs.

When we take the total amount of votes cast divided by the amount of money spent — including 6-1 taxpayer fundings — we will find it cost more than $200 for every vote cast.

Millions of taxpayer dollars were spent on the campaigns. Think of that the next time an issue of taxing Big Apple residents becomes a problem. Whatever happened to the Democratic district captain, who was usually a job holder, who received a dollar’s worth of literature and was told to produce 100 votes in his election district or be out of a job the next day?

Kenneth Lloyd Brown

Forest Hills