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Bayview Referendum Organizers Submit Signatures with Style
Organizers of the effort to place a referendum on Bayview Redevelopment before San Francisco voters submited more than 30,000 signatures to the Elections Department yesterday. The signatures arrived in grand style, when a polished black hearse accompanied by a three-piece jazz band playing New Orleans-style dirges pulled up in front of City Hall. A velvet-lined coffin emerged from the back of the hearse, filled with the voter-signed petitions and emblazoned with the phrase 'Bayview Redevelopment * R.I.P.' While organizers submitted thousands more signatures than the 20,800 necessary for the referendum to qualify, elections officials must now begin the process of verifying that those that signed were registered voters. Should the measure qualify, referendum organizers could claim an astonishing victory, breathing life to a fight many considered long over.
Organizers of the effort to place a referendum on Bayview Redevelopment before San Francisco voters submited more than 30,000 signatures to the Elections Department yesterday. The signatures arrived in grand style, when a polished black hearse accompanied by a three-piece jazz band playing New Orleans-style dirges pulled up in front of City Hall. A velvet-lined coffin emerged from the back of the hearse, filled with the voter-signed petitions and emblazoned with the phrase 'Bayview Redevelopment * R.I.P.' While organizers submitted thousands more signatures than the 20,800 necessary for the referendum to qualify, elections officials must now begin the process of verifying that those that signed were registered voters. Should the measure qualify, referendum organizers could claim an astonishing victory, breathing life to a fight many considered long over.
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