Voting was slow early Tuesday in San Francisco’s Bayview neighborhood, but those who did show up to the polls were treated to a roving festival-like atmosphere.

Teams of supporters of Board of Supervisors candidates vying to represent District 10, which includes the Bayview, Visitacion Valley and other low-income and multicultural neighborhoods, piled out of vans, waved signs and used megaphones beneath sunny skies to try to get out the vote.

Former San Francisco Redevelopment Agency commissioner Lynette Sweet, one of 21 candidates in the District 10 race, operates her campaign headquarters in a building opposite a YMCA polling place on Revere Avenue near Third Street.

Sweet told The Bay Citizen that she grew up in the neighborhood and that her main campaign issues are local issues, including a need to force city contractors to hire construction workers from the Bayview and other economically disadvantaged neighborhoods.

A group of Sweet’s supporters, described as volunteers from the neighborhood, received a steady flow of honks from supportive motorists and Muni bus drivers as they waved signs and shouted. Some of the supporters were spending their day ferrying between local polling places.

Supporters of candidate Chris Jackson shouted through a megaphone and waved signs at a nearby corner of the busy Third Street thoroughfare before moving on to a new destination.

Bayview voter Geoffrey Simpson cast his ballot at the YMCA, which late Tuesday morning and early afternoon was receiving just a trickle of voters.

Simpson said his top considerations when he cast his ballot were local issues, including the need to hire a district supervisor who grew up in the area. He said he voted for Geoffrea Morris to represent District 10.

“She was born here, she growed here, she knows all the community issues, she knows the neighborhood issues, she knows the environmental issues,” Simpson said.

Asked which ballot measure was most important, Simpson named Proposition 21, which if passed would impose an annual $18 tax on motor vehicle owners to provide funding for state parks.

A large state park in the district is used largely as a parking lot for San Francisco 49ers games and parts of it are planned to be built upon in the coming decades under a shipyard-based redevelopment project.

Simpson described parks in the area as “run down” and “not taken care of.”

District 10 is currently represented by Supervisor Sophie Maxwell, who is termed out of her seat on the Board of Supervisors.