“This is nothing more than a last-ditch effort by (Registrar- Recorder/County Clerk) Dean Logan to cover up the improper disqualification of thousands of valid signatures, which we ultimately intend to expose and challenge in court once the review is complete,” said the Recall DA George Gascon Committee.
The county Registrar-Recorder/County Clerk’s Office announced Wednesday, March 22, it has asked the state Attorney General’s Office to review alleged irregularities in the collection of petition signatures for the recall drive and in support of a state ballot initiative, saying they found evidence that dead people were among the petition signers. According to Logan’s office, a review of the petitions submitted in the attempt to recall Gascón last year determined that 367 of the submitted signatures were those of people who had died before the signature-gathering period even began.
The recorder’s office ruled last year that the Gascón recall effort had fallen short, determining that organizers had submitted only 520,050 valid petition signatures, well short of the required 566,857. Organizers of the recall had submitted a total of 715,833 petition signatures to the county in an effort to force Gascón into a recall election. The county later announced that 195,783 of the signatures were invalid. In many cases, the person signing the petition was not a registered voter, and there were also more than 45,000 duplicate signatures, according to the county.
Recall organizers have challenged the rejection of the signatures in court, and said they have been reviewing the petition signatures for the last seven months and found evidence of “gross misconduct and mismanagement” by the county in its review of the petitions, and potentially “intentional misconduct” leading to the rejection of the recall effort. Organizers also said the county is now improperly appealing “basic public records requests” as part of a “run out the clock strategy” to render the recall effort moot, since Gascón will be up for election again next year.
Regarding allegations that dead people’s signatures were found on petitions, the recall organizers said such fraud would have been carried out by paid petition-circulators, and if true, “the recall committee, survivors of crime and residents of Los Angeles are the victims, and the paid circulators should be held fully accountable.” But the organizers noted that the 367 purported signatures of dead people represent “0.0512689412% of the entire submission of 715,833 signatures.”
“If anything warrants investigation by authorities, it is the Registrar’s own egregious misconduct and disenfranchisement of Los Angeles County voters who are suffering under George Gascón,” according to the recall committee.
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Stewie Griffin says
…”we ultimately intend to expose and challenge in court once the review is complete,”
As has been stated often in enterprise management, from charity to warfare, ‘hope is not a strategy’.
All there has been is the continued rolling over of the hope that conservatives could prevail within a system built upon freedom and liberty. Upon repeated and continuous failure, dissonance builds and psychosis comes to dominate the culture.
Let us also not forget that the first act of such psychosis was for the organizers of the petition to blame the polling company of paid petition signature gatherers for the failure, and refuse to pay the bill for services rendered.
All around, this has a corrrosive effect upon the participants on both sides, unecessarily, precipitated by a psychotic episodic shared experience within a small subculture in the 4th largest economy on Earth.
Tim Scott says
We really need to change the law on recall requirements. The state does a lot of stuff with money, most of it good. The county does a lot of things with money, most of it good. Almost everything they do, at least someone, somewhere, thinks it is money well spent. The huge expense of conducting a recall election that has no chance of success is the exception, and current law allows for a disgruntled sliver of the population to force a recall election when that disgruntled sliver is just divorced from the reality of their situation. The county dodged the cost here, but look at the Newsom recall nonsense that cost the state two hundred million so he could win by the same twenty points again.
The recall option is great, but it should only be used if it has at least some chance to win. The current petition threshold does not accomplish that