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Texas Voters Say Yes To Amendments; Some Local Voters Less Generous
Texas voters approved all 16 proposed constitutional amendments Tuesday, but local voters weren’t always so generous.
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(November 6, 2007)--All 16 proposed state constitutional amendments won voter approval Tuesday including an ambitious $3 billion bond plan for cancer research.
Champion cyclist Lance Armstrong and his allies won the race when Proposition 15 received 61 percent of the vote in early returns.
With more than half of all precincts reporting, 39 percent of voted against the proposition.
Voters also approved propositions authorizing as much as $5 billion in bonds for highway improvement projects, allowing denial of bail to someone who violates certain conditions of release in a felony or family violence case and requiring that a recorded vote be taken by a house of the Legislature on final passage of any bill. It also provides for public access on the Internet to those recorded votes.
Statewide turnout was running at less than 8 percent Tuesday night—even less that what state election officials had predicted.
Locally, Temple voters approved a $9.75 million bond issue for park improvements and Salado voters approved retail beer and wine sales.
But Copperas Cove voters rejected a school district tax increase and Lampasas County voters said no to a $20 million bond issue for construction of a new county jail.
Bellmead voters approved a reassignment of a portion of the city’s sales tax for street maintenance, Bosqueville ISD voters rejected a tax rollback, Crawford voters approved a $2.8 million school bond issue, Hillsboro voters approved a school district tax increase, Holland voters approved a $4 million school bond issue and Teague voters approved a $39.7 million school bond issue.
But Mexia voters rejected a $7.2 million school bond issue and Whitney voters rejected a $30 million school bond issue.
The fate of a proposed emergency services district in Bosque County was still up in the air late Tuesday night after technical problems delayed the vote count until Wednesday.
In Moody, Jeff Dean, Carol Haas and Scott Wilson won election to three school board seats.
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