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The Government Ethics Reform Act of 1989 provides for an automatic increase in salary each year as a cost of living adjustment that reflects the employment cost index. [2] Since 2010 Congress has annually voted not to accept the increase, keeping it at the same nominal amount since 2009.
In Australian federal elections, a candidate for either the Australian House of Representatives or the Australian Senate is required to pay a deposit of $2,000. [1] [2] The deposit is refunded if the candidate or group gains at least 4% of first preference votes in the relevant electoral division.
With 54,062 votes, Dyer’s win cost about $7.52 per vote. James Barr, a high school teacher, received 9,499 votes after a reported $2,000 in campaign spending, or about 21 cents per vote .
In many states, citizens registering to vote may declare an affiliation with a political party. [11] This declaration of affiliation does not cost money, and does not make the citizen a dues-paying member of a party. A party cannot prevent a voter from declaring his or her affiliation with them, but it can refuse requests for full membership.
The Texas poll tax, instituted on people who were eligible to vote in all other respects, was between $1.50 and $1.75 ($64.00 in 2024). This was "a lot of money at the time, and a big barrier to the working classes and poor."
This is a list of salaries of heads of state and government per year, showing heads of state and heads of government where different, mainly in parliamentary systems.Often a leader is both in presidential systems.
The close presidential election between Barack Obama and John McCain in 2008 brought more people to the polls (reversing a trend); overall, the proportion of eligible voters who do, in fact, vote has been falling since 1960. The percentage of Americans eligible to vote who did, in fact, vote was 63% in 1960, but has been falling since. [32]