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County clerk completes random sampling technique for Gascón recall petition

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Los Angeles County District Attorney George Gascón. [Image via GeorgeGascón.com]
Los Angeles County Registrar-Recorder/County Clerk (RR/CC) Dean C. Logan on Friday announced that his office has completed the random sampling for verification of District Attorney recall petitions, and that his office is proceeding with a full check of all 715,833 signatures submitted.

The random sample was completed with 5% of the total number of signatures submitted (35,793 signatures). Based on the outcome of the random sampling technique, 27,983 petition signatures were found to be valid, according to the RR/CC. This result falls within the threshold that requires the RR/CC to verify all petition signatures submitted.

If the number of valid signatures had exceeded 31,179, the petition would have been certified as sufficient. If the number of valid signatures was lower than 25,510, the petition would have been certified as insufficient. Because the number of verified valid signatures fell between these thresholds, a full check of all signatures submitted must be completed no later than August 17.

The procedure and legal thresholds for determining the sufficiency of the random sampling technique are set forth in California Elections Code § 11225 and the California Code of Regulations.

The earliest a recall election could be held would be at the same time as the Nov. 8 general election.

Los Angeles County District Attorney George Gascón has been under fire since taking office in December 2020, when he issued a series of directives critics  blasted as being soft on crime. The directives include a rule against seeking the death penalty, a ban on transferring juvenile defendants to adult court and prohibitions on filing sentencing-enhancements in most cases. Gascón has repeatedly defended his policies, saying his stances were well-known during his campaign and his election signified public support of his agenda.

In a statement, recall organizers said residents “have spoken in a resounding way,” noting the sheer number of people who have signed petitions and pointing to 37 cities in the county that have taken “no-confidence” votes on Gascón.

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7 comments for "County clerk completes random sampling technique for Gascón recall petition"

  1. Somehow, I find this difficult to believe.. Person’s who signed this had to stay within the ”yellow” section of the petition, which every Signature Event did that. Makes me wonder if ”dark money” has entered into this Recall to keep Gascon in office. I hope not.

    • Let’s face it; you are well known for denying evidence when it conflicts with what you want to believe, no matter how ridiculous your chosen reality might be. So you finding it “difficult to believe” is totally without meaning.

      The signature hunters were paid per signature. There have already been people commenting on how after they signed up they started getting campaign mail for non-existent people at their address. The signature collectors padded the petition; the only question being how much they padded. Looks like their padding was the only thing that got the petition over the line.

  2. LOL…simple math says that if the signatures remaining run at the same pace as the sample did there are too many phonies and yest another recall effort is a bust. Still possible that the sample is a more phonies than average batch, but there’s certainly reason to anticipate the delicious weeping and gnashing of teeth by the corrupt ADAs and their sycophants.