Both Propositions F (creating a city-run water & power agency) and Prop I (creating a municipal utility district) lost amidst questions about the ballot-counting process and serious election fraud concerns. Absentee and provisional ballots were engulfed in murky late-night happenings . On election night, "Anthrax" scares created confusion and ballot boxes were moved around without supervision. The SF Bay Guardian reports that "Jim Stearns ... told us that he went over to the building and saw two people leaving, with boxes that looked like ballot boxes. They headed away from City Hall. He asked them if they were carrying ballot boxes, and they said, 'what are ballots?'" San Francisco is no stranger to backdoor deals and voting mysteries, ( see current mayor ).

Pacific Gas & Electric, your friendly, neighborhood energy corporation, spent $1.5 million trying to scare San Franciscans into thinking the measures would be too "costly" and "risky." MUD advocates, however, point to LA and Sacramento as two of the many cities with democratic public power protecting the interests of citizens, not corporate ones. See photos from Nov 2 protest at PG&E.

But San Francisco did vote to produce its own solar and wind power. San Francisco voters went to the polls on November 6th and overwhelmingly approved a measure that gives the City of San Francisco the authority to issue up to $100,000,000 in bonds to finance solar energy facilities for use by city agencies and departments. Voters' "yes" to Proposition B and Proposition H will nearly double the number of grid connected solar systems. Read more: 1 | 2