The only thing people should be voting on in December is which house in the neighborhood has the best Christmas display.

Yet only a few weeks after Election Day and barely six months after the annual school elections, voters in several area school districts are being asked to drag themselves to the polls again to decide multi-million-dollar capital projects.

It’s difficult enough to get people to turn out for the regular elections, much less compel them to turn out for special elections.

Yet these capital projects are among the most important votes that taxpayers have to vote on, as they tie up millions of dollars in state and local tax dollars for years.

This isn’t the type of election to slip into the........

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