How much is your vote worth?
It’s valuable, we know. Manhattan District Attorney Robert Morgenthau successfully prosecuted a score of officials in District Council 37 for rigging their union election a few years ago. The theory — rather simply put — was that a union member’s vote was a thing of value, and stealing it was crime.
A veteran of Hempstead government was pondering the school board budget vote on Long Island week, and was wondering how much a vote was worth — in some odd theoretical way.
Well, there were 433 votes in favor and 402 votes against the $135,298,926 spending plan.
Bill Murphy