Plastic bag law: Where did the referendum signatures come from?

Opponents of California’s law banning single-use plastic bags paid a signature-gathering firm almost $3 million to collect more than 800,000 signatures to qualify a November 2016 referendum on the measure.

Tuesday’s qualification was based on a random sample of the signatures turned in by opponents. More than a quarter of the nearly 599,000 signatures deemed valid came from Los Angeles County and 10 percent came from San Diego County. A combined 6.4 percent of the total came from the four-county Sacramento area.

Hover or tap on a county in the interactive map below to see its projected validity rate, or click here.

This story was originally published February 25, 2015 at 11:13 AM.