Anyhoo, Sunday's Matier & Ross column was a doozy.
You see, in 2016, San Francisco voters passed a new law - the first in California - that allowed San Francisco residents who are not US citizens, including people living in the country illegally, to vote in San Francisco School Board elections. The non US citizens had to be of legal voting age, live in San Francisco, and have at least one child under the age of 19.
The idea - not a bad one, in my opinion - was that this group of individuals were stakeholders in the San Francisco public school system, given they had at least 1 child under the age of 19 who presumably attended public school.
Okay. So just how did this voter effort work out for San Francisco?
For the past 2 years, the City of San Francisco has spent $310,000 on this new program, designing a special voter registration form, and implementing voter registration drives.
$310,000: San Francisco's Failed Voter Registration Drive
In the past 2 years, a whopping 49 people have registered to vote under this program. That's a cost of $6,323 per signed-up voter.
And no idea if any those 49 people will even bother to vote in the upcoming midterm election, in which 3 School Board Seats in the San Francisco Unified School District are up for grabs.Crazy! $310,000 down the drain. Another head shaking, only-in-California event.
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