Apparently, Nevada Secretary of State Barbara Cegavske needs a calculator. She has decided to use the traditional “in-person” voting format for the November general election because it would cost $4million-$5 million to conduct an all-mail election.
Ms. Cegavske, please direct your attention to a concept called “cost-benefit analysis.” There are 1,886,928 registered voters in Nevada and thousands of precinct workers. How many of these people will be exposed and infected by COVID-19 during the “in-person” voting process? It’s anyone’s guess.
However, the hospital cost for a COVID-19 stay without a ventilator runs about $2,500 a day for, say, three weeks. Or if a ventilator and ICU are necessary, the duration can run as long as 51 days — as happened to a lady in Utah whose hospital bill ran $795,000. How many people will be infected by voting in person and incur a hospital stay to offset the cost of a mail-in ballot system?