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Tax fails. Final vote is 1,939 Against to 1,156 Click on Headline for Precinct-by-Precinct Results Chart + Complete Story + Photo(s) To read news as added, Click on CM DAILY NEWS for WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 16, 2009 Vote FOR improves in four years. In 2005, tax lost by 73%-27%; this year, it's 62.65% AGAINST to 37.35% FOR. In 2005, vote was 2,326 AGAINST to 864 FOR By Ed Waggener With all 16 precincts and the absentees counted, the Nickel Tax has failed by an unofficial vote of 1156, or 37.35% votes FOR, to 1,939 (62.65%) against. The last precinct to be counted, Milltown, gave the tax 60 votes FOR, 87 AGAINST. The margin of defeat fell dramaticall, to 773 votes. In 2005, a vote on a similar issue was defeated by 1,452 votes. While one precinct, South Columbia No. 2 passed the measure overwhelmingly, 101-36, the school tax carried only one other precinct, East Columbia, and it by a margin three votes, 131-128. The outcome appeared to be certain when the first precinct, Eunice-Pellyton, came in with a vote of 7 for, 125 against. School tax supporters could take a small bit of comfort in knowing that would be the most lopsided vote of the evening, The vote was an improvement over the 72.31% AGAINST, 27.69% FOR in 2005. The only question on the ballot was: "Are you for or against the Adair County School District levying, as authorized by KRS 160, a building fund assessment of 5.6 cents per hundred dollars of assessed property value to meet facility needs for our children."?"Voting Results are as follows:For ____
Polls closed at 6pmCT. Counting stopped at 8:30pmCT and will resume Wednesday morning, December 16, 2009, after a voting machine technician arrives from Danviille, KY. This story was posted on 2009-12-15 18:00:01
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