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At a Trader Joe’s in West Hills a circulator said the petition was about opposing L.A.

Online reaction to Metro’s draft environmental impact report echoes the agency’s dilemma: choosing speed and convenience, or creating a local circulator to densely populated neighborhoods.

"If the board finds that any circulator submitted a fraudulent petition sheet, it should invalidate all of that circulator’s sheets — for any candidate," Christopher Trebilcock, a lawyer for Democrats, wrote in the letter to state officials.

The Democrats’ lawyers are led by Christopher Trebilcock claimed that state canvassers have previously upheld that fraud by a circulator on one sheet “calls into question” the validity of all the petitions submitted by that circulator, the Detroit News reported.

Mr. Pool, a Texas-based petition circulator, has played a central role in Mr. Kennedy’s ballot-access efforts, according to court records and three people familiar with the campaign who spoke on the condition of anonymity to discuss its internal workings.