{"id":19900,"date":"2019-11-04T13:47:17","date_gmt":"2019-11-04T20:47:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.skyhinews.com\/?p=61278"},"modified":"2019-11-04T13:47:17","modified_gmt":"2019-11-04T20:47:17","slug":"ballot-2019-grand-county-still-has-time-to-vote","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/krky\/local-news\/ballot-2019-grand-county-still-has-time-to-vote\/","title":{"rendered":"Ballot 2019: Grand County still has time to vote"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure class=\"wp-block-image p402_hide\">\n<div class=\"caption-container\"> <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"620\" height=\"465\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.skyhinews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2018\/11\/middayelection-shn-110718-1.jpg\" class=\"attachment-large size-large wp-post-image\" alt srcset=\"https:\/\/cdn.skyhinews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2018\/11\/middayelection-shn-110718-1.jpg 620w, https:\/\/cdn.skyhinews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2018\/11\/middayelection-shn-110718-1-150x113.jpg 150w, https:\/\/cdn.skyhinews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2018\/11\/middayelection-shn-110718-1-325x244.jpg 325w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 620px) 100vw, 620px\"><figcaption><strong>Voters at the in person polling place at the Grand County Administration Building. So far, just over 3,000 ballots have been collected.<\/strong><br \/><em>Sky-Hi News file photo<\/em><\/figcaption><\/div>\n<\/figure>\n<p>Without presidential candidates on the ballot, Election Day might have slipped past some voters\u2019 attention, but residents of Grand County still have time for their voices to be heard on a number of local issues.<\/p>\n<p>Drop boxes are available 24 hours at each of Grand County\u2019s five polling locations until polls close at 7 p.m. Tuesday.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Ballots were mailed to all registered voters in October, but for those who lost or did not receive a ballot in the mail, in-person voting is available at the Grand County Administration Building in Hot Sulphur Springs.<\/p>\n<p>According to Grand County Clerk and Recorder Sarah Rosene, just over 3,000 ballots have been collected so far with roughly 11,000 sent out.<\/p>\n<p>On this year\u2019s ballot, voters will be asked two state questions \u2014 Prop CC and Prop DD \u2014 which deal with the state\u2019s Taxpayer\u2019s Bill of Rights.<\/p>\n<p>Prop CC allows the state to keep extra revenue collected in taxes that TABOR currently limits, and Prop DD asks for a new tax for sports betting to support water issues.<\/p>\n<p>Locally, Grand County asked voters to decide on a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.skyhinews.com\/news\/new-jail-goes-to-voters\/\">sales tax increase for a new jail<\/a> and residents in the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.skyhinews.com\/news\/ballot-2019-understanding-the-fire-district-measures\/\">East Grand and Grand Lake fire districts<\/a> will vote on separate revenue questions.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.skyhinews.com\/news\/ballot-box-grand-county-still-has-time-to-vote\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">via:: Sky-Hi News<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Voters at the in person polling place at the Grand County Administration Building. So far, just over 3,000 ballots have been collected.Sky-Hi News file photo Without presidential candidates on the ballot, Election Day might have slipped past some voters\u2019 attention, but residents of Grand County still have time for their voices to be heard on [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[56],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-19900","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-local-news"},"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-15 12:59:23","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"distributor_meta":false,"distributor_terms":false,"distributor_media":false,"distributor_original_site_name":"KRKY Ski Country","distributor_original_site_url":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/krky","push-errors":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/krky\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19900","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/krky\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/krky\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/krky\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/krky\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19900"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/krky\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19900\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/krky\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19900"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/krky\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19900"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/krky\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19900"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}