http://www.latimes.com/news/local/la-me-votecosts8feb08,1,6702080.story?coll=la-headlines-californiaFour months after California voters tossed Gov. Gray Davis out of office, county governments are launching a campaign to recover $43 million they spent on the recall election.
County officials acknowledge they may have a hard time prying the money away from Sacramento during the budget crisis. But it was a statewide election, they say, so the state should pay for it.
Even California's election chief agrees, but because state law doesn't specify who should pay for a gubernatorial recall, there's no requirement for counties to be reimbursed for staffing polling places, counting votes and printing and mailing sample ballots.
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