Voters in one eastern Iowa school district have turned down a bond issue for the second time in six months. Voters in Independence turned down the issue, it needed 60-percent approval, but got only 56-percent. School officials wanted to pay half the cost of a 15-million dollar high school.Voters turned down a similar issue in July by just two tenths of a percent of the vote.
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