Early Voting Underway for McAllen Special Election

Voters to Decide on Performing Arts Center & Hotel Occupancy Tax

In a special election on November 8, City of McAllen voters will decide on 10 proposed amendments to the Texas Constitution and they will also vote "For" or "Against" a proposition to impose a hotel occupancy tax for the purpose of financing a performing arts center.

Here's the official ballot language:

VOTE: [ ] FOR or [ ] AGAINST

"Authorizing the City of McAllen to provide for the planning, design, development, renovation and construction of a Performing Arts Center, or operating or maintaining a Performing Arts Center, and related facilities, infrastructure and improvements including buildings, site work, utilities, plumbing, roads, walkways, sidewalks, plazas, bridges, parking lots and/or parking garages, traffic control devices, signage, landscaping, real estate, easements, rights-of-way and other improvements necessary to build the Performing Arts Center and related facilities located in the vicinity of a convention center or facility owned by the City of McAllen; and to impose a hotel occupancy tax at the maximum rate of up to two-percent (2%) of the price paid for a room in a hotel, motel, tourist home, tourist house, tourist court, lodging house, inn, rooming house or bed and breakfast, which is located in McAllen, Texas for the purpose of financing this Venue Project."

View & Download SAMPLE BALLOT (English & Spanish) on www.mcallen.net

View & Download Early Voting & Election Day Schedules on www.mcallen.net

Early voting underway now through Friday, November 04, 2011

at the McAllen Tax Office, 311 N. 15 St., McAllen, TX

Election Day:  Vote by Precinct

More Information

For more information about the upcoming November 8 election, contact the Hidalgo County Elections Division at (956) 318-2570 or City Secretary in McAllen at (956) 681-1020.