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Article: School district races, tax issues set for vote
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- The Gazette
- Article date:
- September 6, 2007
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The races are set.
Nine area school districts will have contests in November to
elect board members, and a handful of districts will have tax
questions.
Some districts drew twice as many candidates as they have open
seats.
In five of 17 area school districts, however, elections were
canceled because the number of candidates matched -- or was less
than -- the number of open positions on the board.
State law allows jurisdictions to cancel an election if there are
no more candidates than there are seats available.
Three other districts -- Cripple Creek-Victor School District RE-
1, Edison School District 54 JT and Harrison School District 2 --
don't have contested board races but will ask ...