Gascon Recall Effort Fails as Registrar Throws Out 196K Signatures – Opinion

Recall Gascon, a controversial effort to repeal Los Angeles’ crime-ridden Los Angeles has been disqualified from the November ballot. The petition had almost 200,000 signatures and was deemed invalid. In a press release issued Monday, they wrote: “Petition found insufficient to qualify the recall for the ballot.”

George Gascon, the Soros-backed District attorney has caused havoc in Los Angeles by his love for criminals as well his contempt for victims. The recall effort gathered 715,833 signatures, but Registrar-Recorder/County Clerk Dean Logan has found a stunning 195,783 to be invalid for a variety of reasons. In order to qualify, 566.587 signatures had to be found valid. But, only 520.050 were approved, making the total effort 46.537.

The most crucial part of recall was qualifying for the ballot. John Phillips, KABC radio host, explained this today:

The stakes were so high with this because everyone knew, given the polling that’s been produced, if this thing qualified for the ballot, he was gone. He was aware of that. It was obvious to us. We knew this from the County Registerar. He knew that he could not defeat the recall effort if he did it during signature gathering phase.

Many predicted this outcome, assuming that LA’s powers-that-be would find some way to discount enough signatures. It stinks like high heaven.

For starters, as RedState’s Kira Davis reported, monitors were not allowed to watch the count, apparently in violation of the law. What faith can you have in a count which took place in darkness? We can’t. Logan has a history of scandals and was accused of “stealing” the Washington governor’s race in 2004 by miraculously finding more votes in a recount. He resigned in 2006 from the King’s County, Washington election board over a “toxic environment.”

Here’s the breakdown of what Registrar Logan found wrong according to the press release:

Not registered: 88.464
Maximal Number of Times (Duplicates): 43.593
Other Addresses: 32,187
Mismatch Signature: 9,490
Canceled: 7,344
5.374 Address Outside of County
Other: 9,331

What the heck is “other,” I wonder? It also seems odd that 32,000 people have a “different address.” I would also venture to guess that they were pretty strict about the mismatched signatures. “Oh, that one looks a little off,” I can hear them saying, “Toss it.” As many Recall Gascon supporters have pointed out, the Registrar was clearly not using the very loose standards of signature matching that’s been the norm in California’s COVID-justified mail-in-ballots-for-all elections.

According to the statement, supporters of recall have the right to inspect the signatures.

These findings have been notified by the RR/CC to all parties. Per California Elections Code § 11301 and Government Code § 6253.5, proponents of the recall petition may examine the petition signatures if desired, provided that such examination must commence no later than 21 days after the certification of insufficiency of the petition.

The organizers responded by vowing to fight back. LA City Councilman and Co-Chair of the recall Dennis Zine spoke to KABC’s Phillips and said:

Very sad news, but I would not say it’s a big surprise, knowing how the Registrar has orchestrated this particular situation….

All of our activities were prohibited. Our presence was only external. Obviously, we are going to deal with this through the legal process and not just roll over and say it’s okay. It is not uncommon for victims to be outraged.

RedState has reported extensively on Gascon’s misdeeds, you can read it all here. However, Gascon has been noted for being lax with criminal prosecutions and has released many who go on to commit other violent felonies. These are only a few of his failings.

Many more stories exist, and if we stay with him, the number will only grow. It’s truly a dark day for Los Angeles.

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