California: Tax measure recount shows defeat
The New Haven school district is bracing for significant teacher layoffs, class-size increases and program cuts after a manual recount Wednesday confirmed the defeat of the district’s $3 million per year parcel tax measure. The recount resulted in a single vote being added to the yes column when the measure’s campaign committee chairman, Richard Valle, spotted an empty ballot, in which the voter had mistakenly marked “Yes” in the instruction section. But that still left the measure with 65.7 percent of the vote, 81 votes shy of the 66.7 percent threshold to pass.