Ballots are still being counted as of this morning, but Chaffee County, in the space of 36 hours went from 32.9 percent voter turnout to 59.8 percent.
There were 9,472 ballots cast, from a county active voter roll of 15,840. The sudden upsurge in voting delighted the County Clerk and Recorder Lori Mitchell, who provided an update shortly after 11:00 p.m. last night, “We are done for tonight. I will check in with everyone tomorrow to give an update of how many ballots are out there to be cured and what ballot styles they are. I think we processed over 3,000 mail ballots today.”
Chaffee County Clerk and Recorder Lori Mitchell.
Unofficial results filed with the Colorado Secretary of States Office as of 11:11:23 p.m. Tuesday evening:
Salida City government
Mayor – two-year term
Dan Shore 2,045
City Treasurer
Wayles Martin 1,041
Ben Gilling 1,294
City Council Ward 1
Suzanne Fontana 711
City Council Ward 2
Adriane Kuhn 432
Aaron Stephens 452
City Council Ward 3
Jackie Berndt 305
Alisa Pappenfort 467
Buena Vista (BV) School Board:
BV – District 1
Brent Mitchell 1,952
Casey Martin 1,882
BV – District 3
Norm Nyberg 2,850
BV- District 4
George Richardson 2,727
BV at large four-years
Mallory Brooks 2.031
Montana Brown 1.633
BV at large two-years
Paula Dylan 2,115
Trinda Windle 1.543
Colorado Mountain College (CMC) Board of Trustees
CMC District 2
Marianne Virgili 2,388
Dave Use 852
CMC District 4
Kerry Buhler 2,954
CMC District 5
Bob Kuusinen 2,927
CMC District 6
Gloria Perez 2.950
Northern Chaffee Library District Leads Successful Ballot Questions
Unofficial results show the public approved Ballot Question 6A – which asked for voter approval to expand the Buena Vista Library, by a substantial margin: 2,519 votes in favor of the library expansion, and 1,743 votes against.
In Salida, the confusing Ballot Question 300, went down to defeat; with more than 60 percent of the city’s voters rejecting the measure. The vote against it was 1,663, to 1,102 voters who voted for the measure. If it had passed, it would have created a two-tier fee system for the city’s short-term rental properties in residential areas, passing the licensing fees to non-Chaffee residents who own short-term rental properties in the city, and lowering fees for resident STR owners, while setting a flat $5.00/bedroom/night occupational lodging tax.
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