The results from the Oct. 4 city election are officially certified.
The Canvass Board, which is in charge of certifying each municipal election, met Tuesday to pore over and ultimately approve the results from the 2016 regular municipal election.
All of the winners announced unofficially on Oct. 4 — and again after absentee and question ballots were counted on Oct. 7 — still held their respective seats on the Juneau Assembly and School Board. The number of votes each candidate received did change slightly, however, due to small corrections and the addition of a few mail-in absentee ballots.
[Here’s the list of official updated results provided by the city on Tuesday]
Propositions 1 and 2, which raised the sales tax on marijuana products from 5 percent to 8 percent and extended the city’s temporary 3 percent sales tax for another five years respectively, both passed. Proposition 3, which would have made the 3 percent sales tax permanent, failed.
A total of 8,408 people cast a ballot in this year’s election, which means that 33.5 percent of Juneau’s 25,100 registered voters participated.
Slightly more than 1,300 people cast absentee ballots, most of whom (1,067 people) voted early at the Mendenhall Mall or City Hall. About 620 people cast question ballots, meaning they either voted at the wrong precinct or they weren’t properly registered. Of those, the Canvass Board was able to count 562 ballots.
The Juneau No. 2 precinct, which encompasses much of downtown, had the highest turnout of the city’s 13 precincts. 737 people cast a ballot at Northern Light United Church, the polling place for the precinct. Juneau No. 3, which includes Twin Lakes, had the lowest turnout; 280 people cast ballots in that district.
• Contact reporter Sam DeGrave at 523-2279 or sam.degrave@juneauempire.com.
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