ELECTION: RI voters approve all 7 ballot questions, $400 million in borrowing Mark Reynolds, The Providence Journal © David DelPoio Voter and teacher Katharine Amaral at Temple Beth-El in Providence.
Rhode Island voters headed to the polls Tuesday, looked over a shopping list of public projects and opted to borrow about $400 million to finance all of them, from renovations at Rhode Island College to pier reconstruction at Quonset Point.
The highly unusual set of ballot questions, posed in the middle of the winter and outside the context of a general election, won approval with tallies that in some cases were quite close.
The most tightly contested question was the first one on the ballot, for more than $107 million in borrowing for public college construction projects.
SPECIAL ELECTION: Voters decide on 7 key ballot issues and $400 million in spending
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ELECTION: RI voters approve all 7 ballot questions, $400 million in borrowing
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Special election to determine fate of proposed bond issues for combined $400M
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