(The Center Square) – An effort to recall Los Angeles County District Attorney George Gascón has failed to qualify for the ballot due to a lack of valid signatures, election officials announced Monday.
To force a recall election, supporters needed to collect 566,857 valid signatures, a figure that would represent 10% of registered voters in the county. In total, more than 715,800 petition signatures were collected, though only 520,000 of those were found to be valid, the LA County Registrar-Recorder’s Office announced Monday.
According to county election officials, more than 88,464 of the invalid signatures came from voters who were not properly registered to vote in the county, and thousands more were invalidated due to mismatched signatures and addresses. Nearly 44,000 submitted signatures were duplicates.
Proponents of the recall effort targeting Gascón claimed that the district attorney’s directives led his prosecutors to be “soft on crime.” In particular, Gascón’s directives that prevent youth from being tried in adult court and prohibit prosecutors from seeking the death penalty in any case drew sharp criticism from those in support of the effort to oust him.
The campaign behind the recall effort did not immediately respond to a request for comment from The Center Square.
In a statement to ABC7, a spokesperson for Gascón’s campaign said they are “obviously glad to move forward from this attempted political power grab, but we also understand that there is far more work that needs to be done.”
“The DA’s primary focus is and has always been keeping us safe and creating a more equitable justice system for all. Today’s announcement does not change that,” the spokesperson told ABC7.
The failed recall effort targeting Gascón comes after voters in San Francisco recalled District Attorney Chesa Boudin in June. Supporters of that recall effort made claims that Boudin’s policies failed to hold serial offenders accountable for crimes.
Must be that the voters in Los Angeles are majority criminal now. It would be interesting to see them polled on how many have a criminal record.
If these Democrats were as good at validating signatures on fake mail-in ballots as they are in disqaualifying recall signatures, guys like Gascon and Newsom never would have been allowed to take power OVER The People, and Trump would be our President. If 27 percent were deemed illegal, then about the same mail-in ballots in the 2020 election could have been illegal for Hillary, which is just about what Trump was leading by election night on the ID show up vote,,,then the hammer dropped with the phony mail-ins. Get ready for a repeat this fall as too many of too high FBI, IRS, Justice Department and Biden nominated cabinet members have everything to lose if and when exposed for their crimes.
YOU CAN BET Those, when it comes to the ELECTION all those ‘signatures’ will be valid/good…
This is Campaigning 101 folks. They must have hired a shady “political consultant” to handle their ballot petitions. If whoever handled this knew what they were doing, there would be no duplicate signatures, and nobody who was not a registered voter in LA County would be allowed anywhere near a petition signing event.
Sometimes it’s not the signatures you collect, it’s who verifies and counts the signatures you collected.
JUST like its NOT WHOM YOU VOTE for that matters, but who COUNTS the votes that does!
Every time California has an opportunity to fix something that is wrong or broken, the Dim-Dem voters fall in line and allow those who are actively ruining Our State to continue unabated and with impunity.
Fools! Every one of them. They are ruining the State by new degrees every day.
And it makes me feel older than my time, and sadder every time it happens. It makes one want to give up hope.
But the eternal optimist, I will still continue to keep up the good fight when ever I have the opportunity.
IMO this time its NOT THE VOTERS at fault, but the CORRUPT Oligarchy in power, that is REFUSING TO certify the ballots, to oust him, that are at fault…