As expected, city activist and DCWatch director Dorothy Brizill and other anti-slots agitators succeeded in convincing the D.C. elections board to throw out thousands of petition signatures, placing the future of the proposed ballot initiative in jeopardy.

According to the Post,

” … elections board Chairman Wilma A. Lewis criticized virtually every aspect of what she described as an overly ambitious attempt to collect signatures from 5 percent of the city’s registered voters in just five days. She said that contractors hired to manage the drive failed to study D.C. law, failed to train petition circulators properly and encouraged circulators to make false statements about the initiative in an attempt to persuade residents to sign.

Also, previously on DCist, “Slot Pushers Take Step Back”