From the Brattleboro Reformer (emphasis mine):
Primary ballots sent to cities and towns around Chittenden County had to be destroyed and replaced due to a printer’s error, Vermont officials said Monday… they could not immediately say how many ballots were affected or how much it cost the printing firm, Mid-West Printing Co., of Sapulpa, Okla., to replace them.
Why are we ordering our ballot printing services from Oklahoma?
Wouldn’t that money be better spent instate, adding to Vermont state taxes? Do we actually need a private company to perform these services? at all?
Who makes the decisions as to where the ballots are printed in the first place? Was it the choice of the Secretary of State’s office to get Ballots from 1,500 miles away? (I checked it on Mapquest).
There’s an affect when we improve our local businesses; it’s not just about the raw dollars. If we employ Vermonters, we improve the state as a whole and if we keep our resources local, we encourage more local spending as well. That improves our economy and improves our general situation.
Someone explain this to me: why are we spending state dollars in Oklahoma when we could be spending them here?
Vermont should be printing them in-state with a union printer. I believe the only union print shop in Vermont is First Step in Underhill.
I have been wondering where in Vermont there was a Union print shop. I was hoping there was at least one, I have a good amount of work to be printed coming up and I didn’t want to send my jobs out of state to Union shops there.
But now that I know about this place, I’ll send all my work there, support the workers, and keep my money in Vermont.
Yay Union!