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...Jillson and the rent control opponents maintain that 831 signatures were improperly disqualified. These were the signatures of voters who changed addresses or signed with their nicknames...
...suit, Denise A. Jillson, president of the homeowners coalition, and other plaintiffs argue that they collected 93,000 signatures on more than 14,000 petitions. The plaintiffs say that out of that number, enough were valid to put the referendum on the ballot...
...Jillson also challenged a rule that limits the number of signatures that can be counted from each county. The secretary of state disallowed 3,583 signatures which the government said exceeded that limit...
...Denise Jillson, chair of the Small Property Owner's Association, which opposes rent control, later blasted the theatrical opening of the meeting as "government by fantasy," and said her organization was "insulted by the form to which this hearing has degenerated...
...Jillson proposed an alternate solution: either doing away with rent control entirely, or removing two units from rent control for every one unit that is reserved for the needy. This, she said, would fund housing rehabilitation while making sure that rent controlled apartments go to the people who really need them...