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Need legal help over a $20mil+ issue

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The most important vote in my town for the past many decades lost recently after a recount. It involved refurbishing our antiquated high school with new wings and new classrooms (most importantly, new science labs). This school has gotten so run down that kids are being taught in rooms that used to function as janitor closets. With our town having the highest property taxes in the state with no economic base, we needed this new school.

It was actually the school board who called for the recount even though they were in strong support of it passing since they believe in the democratic process.

Are there any legal experts out there that might know about what options the school board has? It needed 60% to pass and garnered 59.9991%, which equates to losing by 1 to 2 votes. When it comes down to such an absurdly small margin, are there options such as revotes?
 
Most likely they can only push for another recount or they'll just have to wait until they can vote on it again, probably not for another year.
 
Bignate603 said:
Most likely they can only push for another recount or they'll just have to wait until they can vote on it again, probably not for another year.
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Thats the problem. The majority of the money is coming from the state.

This option will not be available for at least another 10 years, which is why this loss is so devastating.
 
Bignate603 said:
Most likely they can only push for another recount or they'll just have to wait until they can vote on it again, probably not for another year.
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Same opinion here.

The recount caused a slight change - however, if it was carefully observed (based on the article); no hanky panky involved. I would expect that another recount should not have any impact.

Best thing is to get out the vote for the next time. There were blank ballots. Grass roots to educate people about why the bond is needed.
 
Oh, and maybe it's a hint from those who voted against it that the government needs to spend responsibly, and that they're tired of high taxes.
 
If you're in NY, I thank your town. Our town is looking at a building project. The citizens of the state have already been taxed - the state has a load of money available for capital projects for schools. Thus, the fools in your town not willing to pay pennies on the dollar for a huge capital project are going to miss out. And, before you think that it still means that by paying 10% of the capital cost, your community would still be losing money, don't forget that a lot of that money ends up back in your community in the form of wages for sub-contractors in your community, meals, lodging, etc., that comes from contractors brought in from out of the area, etc.
 
MotF Bane said:
Oh, and maybe it's a hint from those who voted against it that the government needs to spend responsibly, and that they're tired of high taxes.
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You can't have your cake and eat it too. In this case, it appeared to be responsible spending - fixing up a dilapidated high school. If you want to cut back on "irresponsible" spending, cut back on the irresponsible stuff. Don't just blindly pull the no lever though.
 
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