SAN DIEGO—The margin remained razor-thin Friday on a ballot measure to raise the city’s sales tax for $400 million in infrastructure funding, but voters appeared to have turned it down.
As of Friday, the “No” votes led by over 7,000—a margin of a little more than 1.5 percent—with the lead growing slightly since the last count.
Measure E, known as the San Diego Transaction and Use Tax, would increase the tax on transactions in the city by 1 percent, bringing the total sales tax to 8.75 percent. The current rate in the city, 7.75 percent, leaves the city tied for the fourth-lowest of the state’s 482 municipalities and lower than nine of the county’s 18 cities, according to the California Department of Tax and Fee Administration….