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 ó 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 ó the Scotch-Irish precinct on Needmore Road ó in Mark Wineka’s column Wednesday in the Salisbury Post.