Sabotaged? Grassroots effort to overturn SB277 forced vaccine bill claim hundreds of thousands of signatures are missing
by: Julie Wilson staff writer
Natural News
Sep 29, 2015
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(NaturalNews) UPDATE: All the petitions from San Diego County were in fact turned and accounted for. Text has been added to clarify that the actual number of signatures can not currently be verified.

A major grassroots effort to overturn California's recently passed SB277 forced vaccination bill came to an end yesterday as volunteers reached the Monday deadline to submit signatures they have worked tirelessly to collect over a three-month period.

To immediately halt the mandatory vaccine bill and qualify it for the November 2016 ballot, volunteers needed to gather 366,000 signatures.

As the September 28 deadline neared, @SB277Referendum leaders appeared excited and optimistic about reaching their goal, with the initiative's leader Libertarian Tim Donnelly posting photos of boxes stacked high and loaded with signed petitions.

On September 16, referendum leaders estimated that they had received at least 300,000 signatures, and two weeks later there was buzz that they had reached close to half a million signatures.

Leaders also announced that they received an extremely generous donation of $150,000 from an in-state donor, bringing their total funds raised to over $300,000 – a remarkable undertaking for a grassroots effort that was given so little time to prepare.

SB277 Referendum volunteers suspect sabotage from within as panic ensues

Despite the positive social media posts leading up to the deadline, things started to go awry once volunteers began submitting their signatures, with petitioners citing huge discrepancies in various counties and some claiming that they only received credit for a third of what was turned in to referendum managers Donnelly and Lauren Stephens, who were responsible for submitting the petitions to validation companies.

While signature numbers are still unknown, what is clear is that the number of signatures validated thus far is much lower than previously estimated. Below are some estimates of the discrepancies:

• San Diego County submitted eight boxes of signatures but only received one in return
• Orange County is missing 6,000 signatures
• San Bernardino County is missing 8,000
• Sacramento County is missing 15,000 – 20,000 signatures

While signature totals are still unknown, only an estimated 100,000 of the potential half a million signatures have been accounted for – meaning somehow, hundreds of thousands of signatures are missing.