Looks like Measure O is gonna pass! This brand-spanking-new 1 percent county sales tax, which will generate millions per year to fund repairs for our crummy county roads, earned nearly 62 percent approval as of last night’s results.

But hold up! A couple of LoCO readers cried foul, noting that the language of the official ballot question reads “one CENT sales tax,” which is mathematically VERY DIFFERENT than one PERcent. [See above.] If you buy a $35,000 vehicle somewhere with a 1 cent tax, you pay $35,000.01. Buy that thing somewhere with a 1 PERCENT tax and you’ll be charged an extra $350!

“I wonder,” one such reader pondered, “how many people thought they were literally voting for a 1 cent flat tax?”

How many indeed? Did you, voter, find the measure’s language confusing?