For those who question the value of their vote

[jhetley]

Some people wonder about how important a single vote can be. Over in Somerset County, the bond issue to fund a new jail passed by maybe 20-30 votes (depends on whether they do a recount or not). I have been in the Somerset County jail in the course of my professional day-job business*. It is a pit. It currently houses twice the rated inmate population. The state condemned the whole thing years ago, only allowing the place to stay open on a variance of maybe twenty different points. The oldest parts of the structure date back to the 1800s. It has an open sewer in the basement. I could continue the list . . .

And the new jail will pay back its cost in maybe ten years by cutting the amount The Man now pays to board over-capacity inmates in other slammers.

*The jail shows up, randomized, in WINTER OAK.