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May 5, 2009 Local Option Sales Tax Election Absentee and Provisional Ballots Processed After Election Night Early Voting Statistics by Precinct | by Day | Satellite Voting Schedule Turnout (9:00, 11:00, 3:00 and Final) Turnout compared to 1999 and 2007 sales tax elections
Revenue Purpose Statements and sample ballots Each city, and the unincorporated part of the county, had its own revenue purpose statement. Check your mailed ballot style (pdf)
Background On February 2, the Legislature approved and Governor Culver signed Senate File 44, a bill related to local option sales tax elections following a federal disaster. The sales tax is placed on the ballot by cities representing more than 50% of the county's population. In Johnson County, this means the city of Iowa City alone can place the issue on the ballot. The Iowa City City Council voted on February 24 to place the sales tax on the ballot. Senate File 44 specified May 5 as the election date. Under Senate File 44, the sales tax passed or failed in each governmental unit (the 11 cites entirely within Johnson County, the Johnson County portion of West Branch, and unincorporated Johnson County), separately and based only on that unit's vote. This is different than the 1999 sales tax election, when the group of six contiguous cities voted as one unit, and the 2007 school infrastructure sales tax, which passed or failed on a countywide vote. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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