The first returns of the 2020 February Special Election have\nbeen released by the Yakima County Auditor\u2019s office.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The auditor\u2019s office conducts only one count of ballots on\nelection nights and, consequently, issues just one set of returns. The election night count usually represents\nabout 20% of the ballots that have been returned to the Auditor\u2019s office prior\nto election day. Yakima County uses an\nall-mail-in voting system, so ballots that are postmarked before midnight on February\n11th<\/sup> will still be considered valid for the February Special\nElection.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The City of Yakima\u2019s proposal to lift a property tax levy lid in order to generate an estimated $3 million more per year to fund City services is failing.\u00a0 City of Yakima Proposition No. 1 has garnered 63.95% no votes compared to 36.05% yes votes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n A Yakima School District measure to replace an expiring\nlevy for educational programs and operations is currently passing. The measure has received 50.59% yes votes and\n49.41% no votes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n A second Yakima School District proposal, this one a levy\nfor capital improvements to school facilities and safety and technology\nsystems, is narrowly failing at this time. \nThe proposition has 51.49% no votes and 48.51% yes votes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n School district levies in Mabton, Sunnyside, and Zillah are\nall currently passing. Results of a levy\nvote in the Wahluke School District have not yet been reported.<\/p>\n\n\n\n A Naches Park & Recreation District levy proposal,\nwhich need 60% yes votes to pass, is currently passing. The levy proposal has received 67.99% yes\nvotes and 32.01% no votes. <\/p>\n\n\n\n Additional ballot counts will be conducted over the next few days.\u00a0 Ballot counts will continue periodically until all of the ballots that were received before the midnight February 11th<\/sup> deadline have been tabulated.\u00a0 <\/p>\n\n\n\n The 2020 February Special Election will be certified on February 21st<\/sup>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The first returns of the 2020 February Special Election have been released by the Yakima County Auditor\u2019s office. The auditor\u2019s office conducts only one count of ballots on election nights and, consequently, issues just one set of returns. The election night count usually represents about 20% of the ballots that have been returned to the<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8333","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.yakimawa.gov\/media\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8333","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.yakimawa.gov\/media\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.yakimawa.gov\/media\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.yakimawa.gov\/media\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.yakimawa.gov\/media\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8333"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.yakimawa.gov\/media\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8333\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8335,"href":"https:\/\/www.yakimawa.gov\/media\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8333\/revisions\/8335"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.yakimawa.gov\/media\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8333"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.yakimawa.gov\/media\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8333"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.yakimawa.gov\/media\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8333"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}