Gasconade County voters approve use tax 379-364 in Special Election

Posted 8/13/21

In a 7.07-percent voter turnout Aug. 3 for the Gasconade County Special Election, a use tax on out-of-state online purchases was approved with 379 yes votes to 364 votes against.

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Gasconade County voters approve use tax 379-364 in Special Election

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In a 7.07-percent voter turnout Aug. 3 for the Gasconade County Special Election, a use tax on out-of-state online purchases was approved with 379 yes votes to 364 votes against.

Rosebud voters overwhelmingly approved a $3 million sewer bond issue with 52 yes votes to only 3 against. Revenue from the city’s water and sewer system will be used to repay the revenue bonds which will fund improvements to the city’s combined waterworks and sewerage system.

Voter turnout in Rosebud was 18.58 percent as 55 of 296 registered voters cast ballots.

There were 10 yes votes with no one in opposition to a Strain-Japan R-16 School District question seeking authorizing to continue the current operating tax levy of $3.7451 per $100 of assessed valuation. The question was posed only to voters in the Tayloe precinct in the southern portion of the county.

The question was also approved by voters in the school district residing in southwestern Franklin County. It passed in Franklin County 69-31.

Only 747 voters cast ballot out of the 10,561 who are currently registered, according to election statistics from the Gasconade County Clerk’s Office. Lesa Lietzow, county clerk and election authority, reported no problems or issues during the election.

Complete results by precinct were not available but there were only 41 ballots cast all day by voters at the Rural Canaan polling station at Owensville High School. Both of Owensville’s wards cast ballots at the high school site. Combined, only 54 city voters cast ballots. Lietzow said her staff sent out 61 absentee ballots which were requested for the Special Election. Voters returned 40 of them.