WTHI Reports that Daviess County Schools and Vincennes Park Referendums Both Pass

From WTHItv.com:

Voters in a pair of southern Indiana counties cast ballots today in a couple of special elections.

     In Daviess County a referendum was held on a proposal to raise funding for the Barr-Reeve School system, and in Vincennes a decision is expected on whether to build a new city pool.

     The firehouse in Montgomery was converted into a polling place for the special election.

     It was one of 3 places where voters were being asked to back a school proposal to add 35-cents to the tax rate over the next 7 years to fund the Barr-Reeve School System.

     While the question may be a big one for the schools, the response at the polls was light.

     "It's been slow," said Daviess County Voter Deputy Carolyn Newton.  "We've not had too much interest it seems.  The last couple of days it got a little more concerned."

     In Vincennes the stakes are the future of the community pool.

     Voters were invited to the polls to cast a vote on whether the city should raise the tax rate 6-cents to pay for a new $3.8-million pool.

     Election officials say everything worked well for those voters who turned out.

     "No problems, no problems," said Knox County Voting Technician Mike Tarnowski.  "Just low voter turnout."

     Even though the voter turnout is being called light, the bottom line is this.

  Whether it is the school or the pool the ones with the most votes are the ones that are the winners.

     And now that the polls have closed the fate of those projects will rest on those who bothered to show up and vote.

UPDATE:

The results of Tuesday's vote were 12,081 in favor to build a new pool in Vincennes, 241 against. In the Barr-Reeve school funding vote, 666 voted yes while 141 voted no.

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