{"id":6769,"date":"2004-05-10T01:43:56","date_gmt":"2004-05-10T01:43:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dr1.com\/new\/pages\/the-high-cost-of-the-expatriate-vote\/"},"modified":"2004-05-10T01:43:56","modified_gmt":"2004-05-10T01:43:56","slug":"the-high-cost-of-the-expatriate-vote","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/2004\/05\/10\/the-high-cost-of-the-expatriate-vote\/","title":{"rendered":"The high cost of the expatriate vote"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> Bernardo Vega comments today in El Caribe newspaper on the high cost Dominicans<br \/>\nhave assumed so that their expatriated fellow Dominicans can vote. He says that<br \/>\nif each of the 52,600 Dominicans living abroad were to vote, it would mean a<br \/>\ncost of US$741 per vote, since the country has spent US$39 million to equip<br \/>\nvoting stations abroad. Vega says that in 2008 it would be cheaper to rent<br \/>\ncharters to fly in those Dominicans living in NYC and send the airfare to<br \/>\nDominicans living in other parts.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bernardo Vega comments today in El Caribe newspaper on the high cost Dominicans have assumed so that their expatriated fellow Dominicans can vote. He says that if each of the 52,600 Dominicans living abroad were to vote, it would mean a cost of US$741 per vote, since the country has spent US$39 million to equip &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/2004\/05\/10\/the-high-cost-of-the-expatriate-vote\/\" class=\"more-link\">Read more\u2026<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[223,3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6769"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6769"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6769\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6769"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6769"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6769"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}