Maricopa County sales tax for transportation funding expected to pass

(The Center Square) – A half-cent sales tax for the transportation funding in Maricopa County seems likely to pass.

Proposition 479 is leading with 60.18% of the vote, compared with 39.82% voting against the ballot measure as of Wednesday afternoon. When looking more closely, over 730,000 people have backed the proposition so far, but there is a significant number of ballots still left to be counted in the county.

“While each entity and each voter may have had different reasons for supporting Prop. 479, the common thread is consumers want and voted for more transportation options,” Diane E. Brown, Executive Director of the Arizona Public Interest Research Group (Arizona PIRG) and convenor of the Coalition for Transportation Choices, said in a statement on Wednesday.

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