San Francisco DA Chesa Boudin awaits fate as recall election vote comes to a close

San Francisco residents on Tuesday will vote to either keep or recall District Attorney Chesa Boudin, whose progressive policies have shocked even his early supporters, recall campaign spokesperson Richie Greenberg told Fox News Digital.

Boudin's advocates praise the district attorney for keeping true to his promises of eliminating cash bail, not prosecuting quality-of-life crimes and putting fewer people behind bars after his father – a former member of the extremist Weather Underground group – spent about 40 years in prison for second-degree murder and first-degree robbery charges before being granted parole last year.

Voting on the recall measure, Proposition H, will end Tuesday. It is one of eight measures on the ballot, which voters can submit in person or by mail. 

San Francisco DA Chesa Boudin is facing a recall election Tuesday after taking office in January 2020. (Yalonda M. James/The San Francisco Chronicle via Getty Images)

"We really aren't looking to celebrate this with champagne bottles … because this is a recall that we wish we never had to do," Greenberg said. "Having someone such as Boudin elected and having him in with his malicious, fraudulent… pro-criminal, pro-drug-dealer policies is something that we should have never had to suffer through."

While Boudin sought progressive policy changes to avoid criminalizing "poverty and homelessness," as he said in 2019 after winning his election, some city residents are unhappy with the current state of homelessness, drug use, violent crime and burglaries in the city with less than 900,000 people.