{"id":502333,"date":"2026-10-20T15:36:10","date_gmt":"2026-10-20T15:36:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/502333\/"},"modified":"2026-10-20T15:36:10","modified_gmt":"2026-10-20T15:36:10","slug":"san-franciscos-proposition-d-explained-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/502333\/","title":{"rendered":"San Francisco\u2019s Proposition D explained"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Proposition D seeks to shorten San Francisco\u2019s historically long ballot measures. <\/p>\n<p>Prop D would increase the number of signatures needed to get a measure on the ballot \u2014 from just over 10 thousand to more than 40 thousand.<\/p>\n<p>San Francisco currently has the lowest signature requirements in the state, which has historically led to more measures on the ballot.<\/p>\n<p>Some think the proposed change will improve voter engagement, and force the local government to make more decisions instead of punting issues to voters. But in a city with increasingly expensive elections, critics argue that raising signature requirements will make it impossible for everyday people to get a measure on the ballot.<\/p>\n<p>On average, attaining one ballot signature costs about $15 in California. Opponents say that Prop D could raise the price even more.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Proposition D seeks to shorten San Francisco\u2019s historically long ballot measures. Prop D would increase the number of&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":502334,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[30],"tags":[101,103,102,104,106,105],"class_list":["post-502333","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-san-francisco","tag-san-francisco","tag-san-francisco-headlines","tag-san-francisco-news","tag-sf","tag-sf-headlines","tag-sf-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/502333","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=502333"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/502333\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/502334"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=502333"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=502333"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=502333"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}