West Bloomfield Voters Turn Down Farmington Schools Bond

By a 6-vote margin, West Bloomfield Township voters living in the Farmington school district turned down a $222 million bond referendum that failed across the board on Tuesday. 

Of the 314 votes cast (a turnout of 19.31 percent), 186 (nearly 60 percent) came in on absent voter ballots, and nearly 64 percent of those were "no" votes. More than 68 percent of voters who came to the polling place at Congregation Beth Ahm favored the bond.

Across the board, about 43 percent of Farmington Public Schools voters cast absent voter ballots; 60 percent of those landed in the "no" column. 

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