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Board debates recall-reform charter amendment that would delay petitions and bar immediate interim candidates
Summary
A charter amendment to restrict recall timing and require interim appointees who cannot run drew both support and opposition: proponents called the changes necessary to prevent billionaire-funded special elections, opponents said the plan reduces voter oversight.
Chair Aaron Peskin introduced a charter amendment aimed at curbing what sponsors called abuses of the recall process by lengthening the earliest time a recall may be initiated and prohibiting recall elections within 12 months of a regularly scheduled election for the same office. The draft also would require that when a…
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