LAKE COUNTY, Calif. – Voters defeated two marijuana measures, a third attempt at a sales tax to benefit the lake and a Clearlake sales tax measure for code enforcement, but a bond measure to improve Lakeport Unified's schools passed on Tuesday.

According to the Registrar of Voters Office's preliminary election results – which include an early absentee ballot count and results from county and city precincts – countywide measures O, P and S, and Clearlake's Measure R failed, while Lakeport's Measure T passed.

Measure O, the Medical Marijuana Control Act, would have allowed up to four marijuana plants per properties of under an acre, limited collective gardens to 48 plants on rural properties of five acres or more, and charged fees to create a medical marijuana enforcement division in the Community Development Department.

Voters rejected it in a nearly two-to-one margin, with no votes totaling 7,672, or 63.5 percent, versus yes votes totaling 4,402, or 36.5 percent.

It was in direct competition on the Tuesday ballot with Measure P, the Freedom To Garden Human Rights Restoration Act Of 2014.

Measure P, which didn't specifically name marijuana but would have allowed any plant to be grown, in any amount, received 8,180 no votes, or 68 percent, versus a 32-percent yes vote, with 3,847 ballots cast in favor of the measure.

Another countywide measure, Measure S, needed a 66.7 percent supermajority in order to become law, but received only 63 percent – or 7,633 yes votes. No votes totaled 37 percent, or 4,482 ballots.

The funds raised by Measure S, a half-cent sales tax proposal, would have been used specifically for water quality and invasives prevention projects on Clear Lake and other local water bodies.

In Clearlake, voters had to decide on Measure R, another half-cent sales tax that was to raise funds for code enforcement in the city.

Like Measure S, Measure R needed – and failed to get – a 66.7-percent supermajority.

The preliminary results showed that Measure R received 990 yes votes – or 53.3 percent of the vote – while no votes totaled 867, or 46.7 percent.

In Lakeport, the results were different, with Measure T needing only a simple majority to pass.

The bond measure received 1,543 yes votes – or 64.2 percent – in the initial count, with a total of 862 no votes, totaling 35.8 percent.

The Lakeport Unified Board of Trustees voted this summer to place on the ballot in order to make upgrades on the district's campuses.

The Registrar of Voters Office now must complete the official canvass to finalize the election numbers, a process which takes about 28 days.

The finalized count – which will include remaining provisional and absentee ballots – will then be sent to the Board of Supervisors next month for certification.

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