Forest Grove voters appear to reject bond to fund new police station
The city of Forest Grove will need to turn elsewhere if it wishes to fund the construction of a new police station. The latest vote tally issued Friday afternoon widened the 'no' vote to a 190-vote lead.
The Washington County Elections Division published the latest ballot tally Friday afternoon, and the results continue a trend seen in every subsequent vote tally since Tuesday.
The city of Forest Grove will need to turn elsewhere if it wishes to fund the construction of a new police station.
The no vote, already in the lead by 103 votes, has widened to a 190-vote lead.
As of Friday, 2,204 Forest Grove residents had cast a "no" vote to 2,014 ballots cast in favor, or 52.25% to 47.75%.
71 voters returned a ballot but did not make any selection on the bond question.
View the results online here (.pdf).
The elections division will continue to count ballots that were postmarked by May 20 at 8 p.m. through May 27.
The next results will be reported May 30, according to the Washington County Elections Division.
View statewide results online at results.oregonvotes.gov. State tallies may lag county-issued results.
