![]() ![]() 14 to qualify for the November ballot - the equivalent of 15% of registered voters as of the last city election - but they set the higher goal knowing some will be disqualified. Technically, organizers say, they need just 58,203 signatures by Aug. The deadline had been mid-August, but the effort got a boost Thursday when a federal judge extended it to late September, though significant logistical and legal hurdles remain. Over the past month, hundreds of people like them - many volunteers, some paid - have spread out across the city of about 500,000, in hopes of persuading more than 70,000 registered voters to sign on to the petition drive. “I was on a roll before the rain started.” “We definitely need to come back here,” Sanchez said. By the end of a 90-minute shift, 21 people had signed. The fact that it began raining certainly didn’t help. Many seemed to have no idea what “Cop City” was and weren’t interested in finding out. Others said they weren’t registered to vote or didn’t live within the city limits, both of which are required. ![]() ATLANTA (AP) - “Excuse me, are you a city of Atlanta voter? Do you know about ‘Cop City?’”Ĭlipboards in hand, canvassers Sienna Giraldi and Gabriel Sanchez approached shopper after shopper at a Kroger supermarket lot on a recent evening collecting signatures for a referendum over whether to cancel the city's lease of a proposed police and firefighter training center that's become a national rallying cry for environmentalists and anti-police protesters. ![]()
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