File #: 021996    Version: Name: Voter Information Pamphlet Amendments
Type: Ordinance Status: Passed
Introduced: 12/9/2002 In control: Board of Supervisors
On agenda: Final action: 4/3/2003
Enactment date: Enactment #: 44-03
Title: Ordinance amending sections 500, 530 and 550 of the San Francisco Municipal Elections Code to require the Director of Elections to publish in the Voter Information Pamphlet: (1) a description of every elector's right to seek a writ of mandate or an injunction requiring any or all of the materials in the Voter Information Pamphlet to be amended or deleted, and (2) a disclaimer at the beginning of each ballot measure argument and rebuttal authorized by the Board of Supervisors explaining which members of the Board of Supervisors endorse, oppose or have taken no position on the measure; and to clarify that when the Board of Supervisors authorizes a member or members of that body to submit a ballot measure argument or rebuttal, it shall do so by motion, and it need not take any further action, including voting on or otherwise approving the actual text of the argument or rebuttal.
Sponsors: Matt Gonzalez
Attachments: 1. Leg_Ver1, 2. Leg_Final
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