Lawsuit challenges vote on flood control measure in San Anselmo
Saturday, August 11, 2007
The long-delayed effort to prevent another catastrophic flood like the one that inundated San Anselmo on New Year's Eve 2005 is being taken to court.
A lawsuit was filed in Marin County Superior Court this week challenging the mail-in election that supposedly approved raising $40 million over 20 years by charging property owners a flood fee.
The suit, filed by San Anselmo lawyer Ford Greene, says the ballot used by the Marin County Flood Control and Water Conservation District failed to adequately warn voters of the unusual requirement that they had to sign the ballot, resulting in the disqualification of 1,678 ballots, or 21 percent of the total.
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