Uinta County voters who don’t want an additional 1% tax for a new swimming pool and other projects totaling about $40.6 million outnumbered those who did by more than double in Tuesday’s special election.

It’s a decisive defeat that has a state representative pleased, and the project proponents regrouping.

The proposal was to add a 1% specific purpose excise tax to the 5% Uinta County pays currently in sales tax to fund a $28.8 million pool that would replace the 41-year-old pool now in Evanston.

The tax would also have continued until it collected :

• $856,769 for a secondary access road for the Upper Deer Mountain subdivision of Bear River;

• $2.2 million for improvements to Mountain View’s public park, including Americans With Disabilities Act-compliant bathrooms;

• $5.43

See Full Page