CHARLOTTE, N.C. — The race Mecklenburg County voters are watching the closest is the quarter-cent sales tax increase proposal.
[What you need to know: Meck County's quarter-cent proposed sales tax hike]
In the video at the top of this webpage, government reporter Joe Bruno looks into a controversy surrounding a two-page advertisement that ran in Sunday’s paper.
The ads listed hundreds of people claiming to endorse the sales tax, but several of them have come forward saying their names were included on the list by mistake.
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