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neonvincentThis was the most read non-Trump article of 2015. It is also the last Examiner.com article I will post here.
Proposal 1 loses badly statewide while winning Ann Arbor
The polls predicted that Proposal 1 would lose badly. It did even worse than expected, although it was not Ann Arbor's fault.
As of 12:22 A.M., the Detroit Free Press reported that 1,332,676 votes against the measure had been counted to 330,764 votes in favor in the statewide tally so far, a loss of eighty percent to twenty percent. That was an even larger defeat than predicted by the most recent poll, which found twenty-nine percent of those surveyed saying they would vote yes to sixty-one percent saying they would vote no.
While Proposal 1 went down to defeat statewide, it won in both the City of Ann Arbor and Ann Arbor Township by slim margins. The measure earned 8,347 yes votes (51.2%) to 7957 no votes (48.8%) in Ann Arbor proper and 507 yes votes (51.6%) to 475 no votes (48.4%) in Ann Arbor Township. Those results were not enough to outweigh every other part of Washtenaw county voting against the measure, for a county-wide total of 39,031 (64.6%) no votes to 21,375 (35.4%) yes votes.
Washtenaw County had the strongest support among major counties in Michigan. MLive reported that the county with the next highest percentage of yes votes was Kalamazoo (32.71%), followed by Ingham (37.75%) and Kent (26.08%). No other counties listed registered more than twenty-five percent voting yes.
Turnout in Washtenaw County was 22.9 percent. That was a little better than the twenty percent expected, although the steady rain throughout the day may have kept some voters from the polls.
The defeat of Proposal 1 apparently did not translate into widespread anti-tax sentiment based on the fates of the other millages on the ballot, as the three questions on the ballot decided entirely within Washtenaw County won. These included proposals for the Ann Arbor Public Schools, Freedom Township, and Northfield Township.
Voters in the Ann Arbor Public Schools approved a measure to extend the debt bond millage rate for ten years 18,922 (72.9%) yes to 7,039 (27.1%) no. This is expected to raise $33 million over the next decade.
Freedom Township voted against Proposal 1, but in favor of its own millage for road repair 262 (61.65%) yes to 163 (38.35%) no. This millage will last for four years and raise $23,000 its first year.
Northfield Township voted to consolidate three existing millages to support public safety into one. It barely won by 978 (51.8%) to 911 (48.2%).
Stay tuned for two more months of saved comments in the next two posts.
Proposal 1 loses badly statewide while winning Ann Arbor
The polls predicted that Proposal 1 would lose badly. It did even worse than expected, although it was not Ann Arbor's fault.
As of 12:22 A.M., the Detroit Free Press reported that 1,332,676 votes against the measure had been counted to 330,764 votes in favor in the statewide tally so far, a loss of eighty percent to twenty percent. That was an even larger defeat than predicted by the most recent poll, which found twenty-nine percent of those surveyed saying they would vote yes to sixty-one percent saying they would vote no.
While Proposal 1 went down to defeat statewide, it won in both the City of Ann Arbor and Ann Arbor Township by slim margins. The measure earned 8,347 yes votes (51.2%) to 7957 no votes (48.8%) in Ann Arbor proper and 507 yes votes (51.6%) to 475 no votes (48.4%) in Ann Arbor Township. Those results were not enough to outweigh every other part of Washtenaw county voting against the measure, for a county-wide total of 39,031 (64.6%) no votes to 21,375 (35.4%) yes votes.
Washtenaw County had the strongest support among major counties in Michigan. MLive reported that the county with the next highest percentage of yes votes was Kalamazoo (32.71%), followed by Ingham (37.75%) and Kent (26.08%). No other counties listed registered more than twenty-five percent voting yes.
Turnout in Washtenaw County was 22.9 percent. That was a little better than the twenty percent expected, although the steady rain throughout the day may have kept some voters from the polls.
The defeat of Proposal 1 apparently did not translate into widespread anti-tax sentiment based on the fates of the other millages on the ballot, as the three questions on the ballot decided entirely within Washtenaw County won. These included proposals for the Ann Arbor Public Schools, Freedom Township, and Northfield Township.
Voters in the Ann Arbor Public Schools approved a measure to extend the debt bond millage rate for ten years 18,922 (72.9%) yes to 7,039 (27.1%) no. This is expected to raise $33 million over the next decade.
Freedom Township voted against Proposal 1, but in favor of its own millage for road repair 262 (61.65%) yes to 163 (38.35%) no. This millage will last for four years and raise $23,000 its first year.
Northfield Township voted to consolidate three existing millages to support public safety into one. It barely won by 978 (51.8%) to 911 (48.2%).
Stay tuned for two more months of saved comments in the next two posts.
