In the end, it wasn’t close. Only 15.4 percent of registered Platte County voters went to the polls Tuesday. But of the 9,731 votes tallied, 5,559 were cast in support of renewing Platte County’s three-eighths-cent roads sales tax for another 10 years. That’s 57 percent of the vote compared to 4,172 votes in opposition, or 43 percent.
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