Tuesday’s Rio Vista local option election calling for the legal sale of liquor within city limits for off-premise consumption passed by a 47-vote margin, the largest yet of any such election held in the city.
Voters passed the proposition 133-86. Those numbers are unofficial until the votes are canvassed, Johnson County Elections Office officials said Tuesday night.
Tuesday’s vote marked the seventh election to address the matter since 2005. The measure failed in four earlier elections and passed in two.
Judges subsequently voided both elections in which the measure passed based on illegal votes and signatures.
Several members of the Johnson County Commissioners Court had expressed frustration with the seemingly never-ending election.
County Commissioner John Matthews said that the court has no choice but to order the elections as long as the petition calling for it was determined to be valid.
Commissioners earlier this year voted to hold Rio Vista responsible for the full costs of any future option elections involving alcohol. In July, commissioners voted to bill the city $4,469.67 for the cost of the May election.
But county officials agreed that the county would absorb the cost of Tuesday’s election.
“We gave the option this time because the county is having the constitutional amendment election,” said Patty Bourgeois, Johnson County Elections administrator. “Last time the county wasn’t having any other elections. If we wouldn’t have had the amendment elections this time, they would have had to pay.”
Costs relating to Tuesday’s option election where substantially less than in May, Bourgeois said.
The county did not have to hire extra personnel for early voting because it was not conducted in a separate location from those used for the amendment election, Bourgeois said.
The main cost incurred involved adding the option election language to some of the amendment ballots, she said.
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