The Whitehall Ledger - Serving Southern Jefferson County in the Great State of Montana

Much like vote counting results in some places around the country, I am a little slow on delivery.

However, local elections are officially in the rearview mirror. Approximately 58 percent of registered Jefferson County voters participated from the ten precincts within the county. The good news is that this was on par with the state, whose total turnout was just over 60 percent. Since it’s our number one responsibility as sovereign actors within our government, perhaps we should expect higher participation in the process. If I recall from my school days, that percentage is a “low D/high...