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by maxerickson 4049 days ago
There are about 1/2 million correctional officers in the US:

http://www.bls.gov/ooh/protective-service/correctional-offic...

So they might be able to have quite some impact by lobbying and voting as a block, but they are not a big enough body to swing votes against a meaningful majority.

(your link states that union has ~31,000 members, California had about 17.5 million registered voters in the Nov 2014 election)