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Our call — vote YES

The measure

The Maricopa Unified School District (Pinal County) asks voters on November 3, 2026 to continue its existing 10% Maintenance & Operations (M&O) budget override for fiscal year 2027/2028 and six subsequent years — seven years in all — per the district's official election resolution and sample ballot. The estimated first-year amount of the continuation over the alternate budget is $2,758,048.

What YES does

A YES vote continues the 10% override at its existing level. The district keeps the operations funding it already has, funded by the existing levy on taxable property in the district.

What NO does

A NO vote lets the existing override phase down and expire on its schedule. The operations budget loses the override amount in steps, and the override portion of the levy falls with it.

The math

This is a continuation, in the district's own official wording: the same 10%, an estimated $2,758,048 in the first year, for fiscal 2027/2028 and six subsequent years. The official sample-ballot text retrieved does not print a per-homeowner dollar figure, and we do not estimate one — the percentage, the total, the term, and the continuation status are all disclosed, and those are the facts that define the ask.

OUR CALL

Our call: YES.

Same percentage, printed total, printed term, and the word "continuation" in the district's own resolution. That is the voters' own existing tax, renewed with their consent, for operations. Renew it.

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Sources

Election result — November 4, 2026

Result pending. No verified call (Associated Press or official) as of November 4, 2026. This page will be updated when the race is called or certified. The original article above is unchanged.

AI-assisted article — but the sources are human, and the facts are very real.

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