Summit County election results

Andrew Maciejewski/Summit Daily News
Editor’s note: This is the final update. For more election coverage and results, visit SummitDaily.com/election.
1:15 a.m.: The Summit County Clerk’s Office uploaded the final unofficial results around 1 a.m. Jenniffer Gonzalez took the remaining Summit School District Board of Education seat, joining Kimberly Dyer and Whitney Horner.
11:35 p.m.: Summit County Clerk Taryn Power said her team will continue to tally votes tonight until all ballots are reported, noting her team had about 500 ballots to process still.
11:30 p.m.: Another batch of election results were uploaded, but the new totals did not bring about major changes to the percentages for both the Summit School District Board of Education race or the Summit County government ballot measure.
10:05 p.m.: The Summit County Clerk’s Office stated that another batch of results is expected to be uploaded tonight as the Summit School District Board of Education race is too close to call for the remaining vacant seat.
10:02 p.m.: Western Slope voters approve Colorado Mountain College’s property tax ballot measure.
10 p.m.: Three new faces will be joining the Summit School District Board of Education starting Dec. 4. Two candidates — Kimberly Dyer and Whitney Horner — have won two of the three open seats, but the remaining seat is too close to call as of 10 p.m.
9:55 p.m.: Voters pass Summit County measure allowing existing lodging tax revenue to fund road, bridge projects
9:25 p.m.: With the second round of results, Kimberly Dyer and Whitney Horner will win two of the three available seats on the Summit School District Board of Education, but who will earn the third seat is less clear. Jenniffer Gonzalez is leading the remaining candidates.
9:10 p.m.: A new round of results has been released. See all results at SummitDaily.com/election
8:50 p.m.: With more than 1.1 million votes reported — representing more than a quarter of the state’s total active registered voters — as of 8 p.m. on Tuesday, the AP has projected that Propositions MM and LL will pass. As of 8 p.m., Proposition MM was passing with with more than 57% of the vote, while Proposition LL was passing with over 63%. That represents a margin of victory of more than 14 percentage points and 27 percentage points, respectively. More than two-thirds of all counties voted in favor of the measures.
8:07 p.m.: Early results for Colorado Mountain College’s special taxing district show 71.1% of votes in favor of ballot measure 7C (31,661 votes) and 28.9% of votes in opposition (12,869 votes), as of 7:40 p.m. Tuesday.
8:03 p.m.: Propositions MM and LL, the only statewide measures on this year’s ballot, were both passing, according to initial results reported by the Colorado Secretary of State’s Office. Both measures seek to raise tax revenue for the state’s Healthy School Meals for All program. Proposition MM would raise taxes on households earning more than $300,000, while Proposition LL would allow the state to retain excess tax revenue for the school meals program. As of 7:30 p.m., Proposition MM was passing with just under 56% of the vote in favor, while Proposition LL had just over 62% of the vote in favor, with more than half the state’s counties reporting votes.
8:00 p.m.: Summit County shows overwhelming support for 1A, the ballot measure asking voters to use lodging taxes for road repair. The first round of results show 90% of votes for yes, with 10% for no.
7:50 p.m.: Five candidates — Tom Day, Kimberly Dyer, Jenniffer Gonzalez, Whitney Horner and Jacqueline Zheleznyak — are running for the three seats on the Summit School District Board of Education. Dyer (3,982 votes) and Horner (3,742 votes) have a large lead, with Day (2,335 votes) Gonzalez (2,480 votes) and Zheleznyak (2,333 votes) are battling for the final seat.
7:40 p.m.: Early results show Colorado voters supporting tax measures to bolster funding for free school meals program
7:35 p.m.: The first wave of results have been posted and can be seen at SummitDaily.com/election
7:00 p.m.: Polls have closed. The first wave of results is expected shortly.

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