North Carolina now faces its second sales tax revolt in two years.
Opponents of a half-cent sales tax in Mecklenburg County used for transit projects have gathered enough signatures to put a repeal on the November ballot, according to the Char-O.
In February of 2006, Dare County voters overwhelmingly rejected a one-cent sales tax levied for beach replenishment projects in a similar referendum.
Ray Midgett, a Southern Shores resident who used to work as a state auditor, led the effort there.
Under the 1971 law that created the first local option sales tax, opponents of a tax can force a special election on it by gathering the signatures of 15 percent as many voters as turned out in the most recent gubernatorial election.
In Mecklenburg, that amounted to 48,669 signatures.
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