Coming up: Wineka visits one of Rowan's loneliest polling places

Tuesday, November 03, 2009 3:13 PM  |  Printer friendly version | E-mail to a friend |

Inside the fire station at the Scotch-Irish precinct Tuesday, poll workers waited long periods between voters. Empty voting stations are on the right. Photo by Mark Wineka, Salisbury Post

Scotch-Irish precinct workers Forrest Lloyd, Carol Wagner, center, and Joyce Steele had plenty of time for conversation during Election Day Tuesday. Photo by Mark Wineka, Salisbury Post

What if they held an election and nobody came?

It wasn't quite that bad Tuesday, but for about half the Rowan County voting precincts there was only one thing on the ballot — a local quarter-cent sales tax referendum.

It made for sparse turnouts and a very lonely day for many poll workers. Read about one of the loneliest voting outposts — the Scotch-Irish precinct on Needmore Road — in Mark Wineka's column Wednesday in the Salisbury Post.

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