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Proposition 100 Results

PROPOSITION 100 PASSES IN A LANDSLIDE

THANK YOU ARIZONA!

Voter turnout was high and Proposition 100 passed, with 64% of Arizonans voting for the measure.

Select news coverage of the election results:

KVOA: Prop 100 supporters celebrate win

Amphitheater parent Lisa Ferko: “Parents have come out and said public education is important to children and to our state.”

Arizona Daily Star: Sales-tax hike passes

Pollster Earl de Berge: “This may be the first sign in Arizona of a continuation of the anti-incumbent mood, with people saying the legislature could have made this decision already and we’d be farther along by now.”

Tucson Sentinel: 2-1 landslide is ‘resounding wave’ for Prop 100

“It’s a resounding wave of support,” said Ann-Eve Pedersen, board president for the Arizona Education Network, which pushed the measure. “The legislature is way out of step with what the people of Arizona want, which is well-funded public education, public universities and public safety.”

“The people of Arizona did what the legislature was not willing to do” in raising taxes to fund education, Pedersen said. “Hopefully this legislature takes note and starts doing its job.”

East Valley Tribune: Arizona voters approve Prop. 100 tax hike
Mesa Unified School District governing board president Dave Lane said “it’s good news.”
“We only have to cut $25 million, which is pretty doable and we’d planned on it,” Lane said. “Looking down the road, this is only a three-year increase in the revenues. I’m really hoping the next legislature and whoever the governor is tries to work through the long-term financial standing of Arizona and hopefully they can put aside some of their partisanship and bickering and get down to business and solve some of the long-term financial challenges our state has.”

Green Valley News: Proposition 100 tax easily passes

Arizona voters on Tuesday soundly approved a temporary sales tax increase to help close the state’s projected big budget shortfalls and avert cuts to education, social services and law enforcement.

With hundreds of thousands of early ballots counted and nearly 85 percent of polling places reporting on Tuesday evening, the vote on Proposition 100 was 64 percent in favor and 36 percent against.

Los Angeles Times: Arizona voters approve sales-tax increase

“This is Arizona treating education as an investment rather than an expense,” said Eileen Sigmund, the chief executive of Arizona Charter Schools Association. “It’s a complete sea change. It’s people saying, ‘This is my state.’ ”
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Legislative Voting Record

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