The $98-per-parcel tax placed on the ballot by the school district was at press time hovering at 66.02 percent approval, with 28,653 votes for it and 14,749 against. That figure is just shy of the two-thirds majority needed to pass the parcel tax.

According to Jeremy Nishihara, the district's communications manager, the measure's fate rests on the provisional and absentee ballots that are currently being counted by the Santa Clara County Registrar of Voters. There's no way to know how many votes are left because some provisional ballots, cast by those whose voter registration was in doubt, will likely be disqualified.

Nishihara calculated that most of the votes left to be counted would have to go for the parcel tax for the measure to have a chance of passing. "We'll know as soon as we get the certified results from the county," Nishihara said. "It could be a few days or a few weeks."

Other unofficial results show that the other parcel tax, placed on the ballot by the Fremont Union High School District, passed with 66.93 percent of voters approving the measure. But for now, the district is on hold, according to communications manager Cindy McArthur, in case the remaining ballots push their approval rating back. "We are not declaring that it passed," she said. "They still have a third of our votes to count."

The higher rate of approval for the high school district's parcel tax may be due to voters in the Sunnyvale School District, which also feeds into Fremont Union. Voters in that district passed their school bond measure at a 72.85 approval rate.

Residents in the Fremont Union district have also largely affirmed the placement of two incumbents on their board of trustees. Unofficial results show that Nancy A. Newton and Homer Tong both won re-election--Newton with 42.68 percent of the vote, and Tong with 32.00 percent of the vote. Challenger Michael Anthony Flores received 22,093 votes for 25.13 percent of the ballots cast. There are still votes to be counted.

Newton and Tong have been with the board for 17 and 12 years respectively. They will begin their new four-year terms in December.