Nov. 5, 9 a.m.
Local voters had their say yesterday - no more taxes! They rejected the Spur bond measure, questions 2A and 2B.
They said no to the school district's plea for $18 million that would go towards building eight new classrooms, affordable housing for teachers and support upgrades to existing structures.
Of all the tax measures, the local childcare initiative came closest to passing with 45 percent of voters agreeing, but still 55 percent voted no.
And the Hospital District's requests were a mixed bag. Voters said yes to buying the RV lot land on the west side of town on which they plan on building a new medical center. However, they turned down the request for funds.
As for Art Goodtimes, the Green Party county commissioner was re-elected to a fourth term with a 48 percent vote, compared to Oak Smith (D.) who gained 32 percent and Bill Wenger (R.) who received 20 percent of the votes.
Here's the rundown on all the election measures from San Miguel County Voters, according to the Telluride Daily Planet:
U.S. President: Barack Obama/Joe Biden, 77 percent
U.S. Senator: Mark Udall, 73 percent (won the state, 52 percent)
District 3 Congress: John T. Salazar, 81 percent (won the state, 61 percent)
District 58 State Rep.: Noelle Hagan, 73.27 percent (Scott Tipton won the seat, 63 percent)
District 3 County Commissioner: Art Goodtimes, 48.45 percent
Little Mill, Ballot Issue 1A: Defeated, 54.69 percent
Telluride sales tax increase, Ballot Issue 2A: Defeated, 75.56 percent
Spur Bond, Ballot Issue 2B: Defeated, 78.36 percent
Town of Telluride Question 200: Passed, 50.11 percent
Town of Telluride Question 201: Defeated, 51.7 percent
Instant Run-off Voting, Question 202: Passed, 67.08 percent
School District Ballot Issue 3A: Defeated, 57.1 percent
Hospital District Ballot Issue 5A: Defeated, 59.95 percent
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Nov. 4, 9 p.m.
According to KOTO Radio, San Miguel County has results from early and mail-in voters, which account for 55.5% of all voters. Those results show that parks and recreation measures 5B, 5C and 5D are all leaning towards a "no" vote at this time. As for the Telluride tax measures about the spur, the hospital district, the school and childcare education, those measures are leaning towards no at this piont as well. However, this is not a completely representative sample.
At this point most major news sources, such as National Public Radio and MSNBC, are projecting that Obama has won enough electoral votes to win the country. On a more local level, the votes tallied thus far in Colorado show that Obama (D.), Udall (D.) and four out of six Democratic House representatives are ahead, with Republicans ahead in U.S. House Districts 5 and 6.
