11/04/09

BOISE, Idaho (AP) _ Voters in three Idaho counties slammed the
door on measures that would have paid for proposed jails or jail
expansions.

In Kootenai County in northern Idaho, a $57 million bond and
half-cent sales tax to expand the county's jail fell short of the
two-thirds supermajority needed to pass.

In Jerome County in south-central Idaho, a plan for a 30-year,
$13.5 million lease-to-purchase agreement for a 165-bed jail fell
1.16 percent short of the supermajority.

And in Canyon County in southwestern Idaho, a $46 million bond
failed after getting 57 percent approval, about 10 percent short of
the supermajority of voters it needed to pass.

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