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‘Blown away’: Regional transit tax measure gets enough signatures for November ballot
Organizers with the Connect Bay Area Act, a regional sales tax measure for public transit, collected 305,895 signatures across five Bay Area counties, well above the 186,000 required threshold to place it on this year’s ballot. Voters in the counties of Alameda, Contra Costa, San Mateo, San Francisco, and Santa Clara will vote this November […] The post ‘Blown away’: Regional transit tax measure gets enough signatures for November ballot appeared first on Local News Matters .
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According to Local News Matters’s source item, ‘Blown away’: Regional transit tax measure gets enough signatures for November ballot, Organizers with the Connect Bay Area Act, a regional sales tax measure for public transit, collected 305,895 signatures across five Bay Area counties, well above the 186,000 required threshold to place it on this year’s ballot. Voters in the counties of Alameda, Contra Costa, San Mateo, San Francisco, and Santa Clara will vote this November […] The post ‘Blown away’: Regional transit tax measure gets enough signatures for November ballot appeared first on Local News Matters .
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