Following complaints, Mission makes more changes to electioneering ordinance

MISSION — Following last week’s election, which prompted various complaints from voters and residents, the city is once again making changes to electioneering activities here. The new changes are only for city-owned polling locations, which include designating electioneering areas, crowd-control fencing installation, and additional political signs restrictions as well as possible removal costs for those materials. The city council voted 4-0 to approve the changes to the electioneering ordinance Tuesday, with Mayor Pro Tem Ruben Plata absent from the regular meeting. The new changes are now in effect for the upcoming runoff election on Dec. 12, and will only be enforceable at city-owned polling locations — Bannworth Park and the Parks and Recreation building. Back in August, the city amended its code of ordinance in response to issues following Election Day where electioneers left behind their materials as well as restrictions to political signs due to some that “got creative,” City Sec