For full clarity, my sims, Hiccup and Astrid, live in Conifer Station in Evergreen Harbor. I had them purchase the Brindleton Pawspital in Brindleton Bay, where I first encountered the problem of sims stealing Vet equipment because it was part of a NAP that was in place, Sharing is Caring. (I also ended up firing an employee because they randomly started beating up my sims under another NAP for encouraged brawling, which I only mention as it made attempting signatures difficult when the sim I was talking to start a fight and cut off most of the Friendly options.) After consulting this thread, I had them open a new Clinic in Grims Quarry, got a little distracted building it, but opened it with the intention of having the employee I had hired sign the petition to repeal Sharing is Caring. So by this time, I'm in the same neighborhood, but I encounter the same problem, 10 influence points deducted, no repeal process started, and in the time I've been open, the very first patient I had lifted a bench from my waiting room, which I can't replace because I built the location before buying it and my sim doesn't meet the requirements to buy that bench. I close the location to avoid further losses, and attempt several more times to get signatures/start the repeal process just by lingering outside the closed store, "starting" the repeal process with my location's mailbox (again, no process actually starts, just 10 points deducted each time I try) and attempting to accost passerby for signatures on the assumption that it is merely the NAP interface that is glitching and that the process has actually started. Several attempts are made, hampered by the occasional brawl, but no option to ask for signature is ever found despite eventually resorting to pausing right after introducing myself to a new sim and scrolling through all friendly options. So I went back to play at Conifer Station, which is the only place where I had gotten the NAP repealed before the update because I misunderstood that the repeal didn't affect the whole neighborhood when I first played.
Again, none of this is a problem anymore, my repeals started working again and I managed to get Sharing Is Caring banned at the location in Grims Quarry with minimal losses to equipment, then had another Sim who lived in Brindleton repeal it there before opening again. I've no idea what created the problem in the first place or what solved it. However I feel like I was fairly thorough in trying the process in and out of neighborhoods, short of bulldozing my neighbor's house in Conifer Station to open a third clinic and voting the NAP back in to try and repeal it again.
Hope that helps clear things up. I could provide a save but considering I'm not getting the error in any neighborhood anymore I'm not sure how much help that would be at this point.
