Meet the District 4 candidates: Do you support raising threshold for ballot measures?

"One of the propositions aims to make it harder to put new measures onto the ballot. Today, it takes just four of the 11 supervisors, the mayor or two percent of registered voters to put measures up for a vote."

"The proposition would instead require a majority of the Board of Supervisors (six or more) to support the measure and put it on the ballot. That kind of agreement is not easy."

"For voter initiatives, the proposition would require signatures from 8 percent of registered voters, instead of the current 2 percent threshold."

"A group of opponents of the Sunset Dunes park are gathering signatures to put a measure on the November ballot to reopen the Great Highway. They need some 10,000 signatures, but a similar endeavor in the future, if the mayor's proposal passed, would require about 40,000."

Mayor Daniel Lurie and Board of Supervisors president Rafael Mandelman proposed three charter reform measures for the November election. These measures would expand the mayor's power while weakening oversight commissions and the Board of Supervisors. One proposition would require a majority of supervisors to support ballot measures, making it more difficult to propose new initiatives. Additionally, the threshold for voter initiatives would increase from 2 percent to 8 percent of registered voters, significantly raising the number of signatures needed for future measures.

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