Post by Joe Cocker on Dec 5, 2012 17:10:09 GMT -5
Recount for Alameda County transportation sales tax
Recount for Alameda County transportation sales tax increase
(WHAT THIS MEANS THAT AGENDA 21 LOST SOME TAX MONEY)
They gave up on the re-cout last week.
By Denis Cuff
Contra Costa Times
Posted: 11/29/2012 01:36:33 PM PST
Updated: 11/29/2012 04:56:10 PM PST
A recount of votes will be done on an Alameda County transportation sales tax measure that narrowly lost at the polls.
Measure B1 would have raised an existing half-cent transportation sales tax to a full cent and raised nearly $8 billion over three decades for roads, freeways and public transit.
The Alameda County Transportation Commission announced Thursday it is paying for a partial recount of votes.
The measure lost by 0.14 of a percent or fewer than 800 out of the 527, 403 votes cast. In need of 66.67 percent of the vote to pass, the traffic congestion fighting measure garnered 66.53 percent in the November election.
"We owe it to the 66.53 percent of the voters who supported the measure to leave no stone unturned in finding out if Measure B1 was really defeated," said Art Dao, executive director of the agency that manages the sales tax. "This is too important not to act on."
The measure would provide money to fix potholes, improve freeways, boost bus service, and provide $400 million for a BART extension to Livermore.
Many transportation leaders statewide are watching the results because passage of the measure would make Alameda the Northern California county with a full 1-cent transportation sales tax.
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Recount For Measure B1 Is Short-Lived
Wednesday, December 05, 2012 Steven Tavares No comments
MEASURE B1 | The Alameda County Registrar received notice Tuesday evening that backers of the Measure B1 decided to end the recount after the retabulation of 30,000 votes mustered only 7 additional yes votes for the half-cent transportation tax. Tuesday’s recount sampled only 30,000 ballots in Berkeley, said Alameda County Registrar Dave Macdonald. The small number when extrapolated would have fallen well short of overturning the 721 vote spread. Measure B1 won 66.53 percent of the vote last Nov. 6. A two-thirds majority was needed for approving the tax increase. Backers of the recount were counting on Berkeley’s 80 percent yes rate for the measure to be a canary in the goldmine for the rest of the county, Macdonald said Wednesday morning, but it was not the case. While voters in...
www.ebcitizen.com/
53 minutes ago – Breaking News, Politcs in Alameda County and the East Bay. ... Backers of the recount were counting on Berkeley's 80 percent yes..
Recount for Alameda County transportation sales tax increase
(WHAT THIS MEANS THAT AGENDA 21 LOST SOME TAX MONEY)
They gave up on the re-cout last week.
By Denis Cuff
Contra Costa Times
Posted: 11/29/2012 01:36:33 PM PST
Updated: 11/29/2012 04:56:10 PM PST
A recount of votes will be done on an Alameda County transportation sales tax measure that narrowly lost at the polls.
Measure B1 would have raised an existing half-cent transportation sales tax to a full cent and raised nearly $8 billion over three decades for roads, freeways and public transit.
The Alameda County Transportation Commission announced Thursday it is paying for a partial recount of votes.
The measure lost by 0.14 of a percent or fewer than 800 out of the 527, 403 votes cast. In need of 66.67 percent of the vote to pass, the traffic congestion fighting measure garnered 66.53 percent in the November election.
"We owe it to the 66.53 percent of the voters who supported the measure to leave no stone unturned in finding out if Measure B1 was really defeated," said Art Dao, executive director of the agency that manages the sales tax. "This is too important not to act on."
The measure would provide money to fix potholes, improve freeways, boost bus service, and provide $400 million for a BART extension to Livermore.
Many transportation leaders statewide are watching the results because passage of the measure would make Alameda the Northern California county with a full 1-cent transportation sales tax.
Recount for Alameda County transportation sales tax increase - San ...
www.mercurynews.com/top-stories/ci_22091723
Recount For Measure B1 Is Short-Lived
Wednesday, December 05, 2012 Steven Tavares No comments
MEASURE B1 | The Alameda County Registrar received notice Tuesday evening that backers of the Measure B1 decided to end the recount after the retabulation of 30,000 votes mustered only 7 additional yes votes for the half-cent transportation tax. Tuesday’s recount sampled only 30,000 ballots in Berkeley, said Alameda County Registrar Dave Macdonald. The small number when extrapolated would have fallen well short of overturning the 721 vote spread. Measure B1 won 66.53 percent of the vote last Nov. 6. A two-thirds majority was needed for approving the tax increase. Backers of the recount were counting on Berkeley’s 80 percent yes rate for the measure to be a canary in the goldmine for the rest of the county, Macdonald said Wednesday morning, but it was not the case. While voters in...
www.ebcitizen.com/
53 minutes ago – Breaking News, Politcs in Alameda County and the East Bay. ... Backers of the recount were counting on Berkeley's 80 percent yes..