New numbers: Tax approval gaining ground

Though the early vote went against the spaceport tax, numbers I have from today’s vote are keeping alive the chance that the tax will be approved.

I have numbers from 11 of 107 precincts. The total from those is 1,080, or 60 percent, voting for the tax and 729, or 40 percent, voting against it.

I’m driving around Las Cruces collecting numbers from receipts posted at polling places, so most of those numbers are from inside the city limits. I’ve enlisted a few others to help me.

The total for the numbers I have, including early voting, is 2,975, or 53 percent, against the tax and 2,653, or 47 percent, in favor of it.

Stay tuned.