{"id":446574,"date":"2026-11-03T23:22:13","date_gmt":"2026-11-03T23:22:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/446574\/"},"modified":"2026-11-03T23:22:13","modified_gmt":"2026-11-03T23:22:13","slug":"miami-county-voters-decide-on-tax-levy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/446574\/","title":{"rendered":"Miami County voters decide on tax levy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 lofITx body-paragraph\">MIAMI COUNTY \u2014 As well as big races, voters in Miami County are deciding whether or not to approve a tax levy. <\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 lofITx body-paragraph\">[DOWNLOAD: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.whio.com\/mobile-apps\/\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.whio.com\/mobile-apps\/\">Free WHIO-TV News app for alerts as news breaks<\/a>]<\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 lofITx body-paragraph\">\u201cIt\u2019s just so important to get out here and do this,\u201d Roberta Landers said. <\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 lofITx body-paragraph\">Landers got emotional after casting her ballot Tuesday afternoon. <\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 lofITx body-paragraph\">\u201cI think it\u2019s so sad that people don\u2019t take the time to do the right thing. They can live in this world, they can complain about this world, but they can\u2019t get out and vote,\u201d Landers said. <\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 lofITx body-paragraph\">Because for her, quitting is not an option. <\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 lofITx body-paragraph\">TRENDING STORIES:<\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 lofITx body-paragraph\">\u201cThe world\u2019s in bad shape right now, and we can\u2019t give up. If you don\u2019t vote, it\u2019s like giving up,\u201d she said. <\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 lofITx body-paragraph\">Landers said she voted in every election since she was 21. <\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 lofITx body-paragraph\">\u201cAt 80 years old, I think I\u2019ve always seen all I can see, but that\u2019s not true. This world changes too fast,\u201d she said. <\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 lofITx body-paragraph\">In addition to the gubernatorial race, voters in Miami County are deciding whether to add a tax levy that supports the park district.<\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 lofITx body-paragraph\">People in Piqua are deciding whether to recall three of their city comissioners after they supported the proposed data center. <\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 lofITx body-paragraph\">The Miami County Board of Elections said early voting was a huge turnout. <\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 lofITx body-paragraph\">\u201cAlmost double what we did in the previous gubernatorial. We\u2019re busy. We\u2019re hoping that the same energy goes to the polls today,\u201d Christina Panagouleas-Stephens, deputy director for Miami County Board of Elections, said. <\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 lofITx body-paragraph\"> The polls close at 7:30 p.m. and all absentee ballots are also due at that time. <\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 lofITx body-paragraph\">[SIGN UP: <a href=\"https:\/\/membercenter.whio.com\/newsletters\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/membercenter.whio.com\/newsletters\">WHIO-TV Daily Headlines Newsletter<\/a>]<\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 lofITx body-paragraph body-copyright\">@2026 Cox Media Group<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"MIAMI COUNTY \u2014 As well as big races, voters in Miami County are deciding whether or not to&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":446575,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[28909,123,4270,125,124,173712,173713,173711],"class_list":["post-446574","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-miami","tag-gubernatorial-race","tag-miami","tag-miami-county","tag-miami-headlines","tag-miami-news","tag-park-district","tag-roberta-landers","tag-tax-levy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/446574","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=446574"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/446574\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/446575"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=446574"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=446574"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=446574"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}