Trip to jail required in order to vote in Virginia City
By Sean Whaley, Las Vegas Review-Journal
VIRGINIA CITY — If you want to vote in the upcoming general election in this former mining boomtown you might have to go to jail first.
Early voters in much of Storey County are voting in the former jail of the city’s historic county courthouse. It will be in use on Election Day on Nov. 8 as well.
“It’s our chance to show off the slammer,” said county Clerk-Treasurer Vanessa Stephens. “We thought it was a good chance to showcase this county treasure.”