If you still have an early ballot laying around the house, now’s the time to fill it out and get it to the polling place. You have until the polls close at 7 p.m. to either drop off your ballot or vote in person.
Pima County voters will decide the fate of seven bond questions. More details on those questions here, here and here.
In the city of Tucson, you’ll be deciding three City Council seats, as well as whether to keep photo-radar enforcement cameras to nab people who run red lights and speed. You’ll also determine whether the city adopts some charter changes. More on those the city elections here.
Oro Valley voters will decide whether to recall the mayor and some council members.
The Weekly’s endorsements are here. But we’ll cut to the chase: We support all seven bond proposals and the two charter changes and oppose getting rid of the red-light cameras.
It appears that a lot of you got early ballots but have not yet cast them. Last month, Pima County Recorder F. Ann Rodriguez sent out more than 306,000 ballots to voters on the permanent early ballot list. As of this morning, Rodriguez had turned over 132,551 ballots for tabulation by the elections department. So fewer than half of the early ballots have come back so far.
You can find your polling location here.
This article appears in Oct 29 – Nov 4, 2015.
If you have been regularly voting for the winners in local elections I would encourage you not to vote today. Give us time to try to fix some of the damage they have caused. And maybe, just maybe, you shouldn’t be voting at all.
How sanctimonious of you.
NO, perhaps H*LL no on the bonds. Pima County needs jobs, not feel good, debt financed projects.
Call it sanctimonious if you like but I am simply trying to save Tucson from it’s own self destruction.
We have buildings and roads falling apart from lack of maintenance. We have pension plans so under funded they bond to hide the fraud. Unemployment levels still too high. College graduates that must leave town to find a career. And yet we want to tax ourselves to buy more land for open space to keep it away from us?
Radical progressives voted out the sanctuary city Sheriff that freed Kate Steinley’s killer. Kentucky elected it’s first Republican governor in 40 years. And Phoenix approves bonds to increase education spending.
Now how ‘progressive” does Tucson feel? We can and must do much better than we are. Our future depends on it.