Officials state that monitors won’t be permitted to see the count of votes in recall balloting for Los Angeles County District attorney George Gascon, as the county doesn’t consider it an election.
The recall campaign organizers stated that they want to ensure the correct counting of voter petitions in order for the measure to go on the November ballot.
Supporters of the initiative argue that the law explicitly states that recalls are an election, and should therefore be open to the public.
“We are concerned about it, and we have attorneys looking at it,” retired LAPD Sgt. Dennis Zine (one of the campaign organizers) spoke out about the petition count.
Kira confirmed L.A. R-R’s lies.
The law does indeed clearly identify recalls as elections, and supporting language can be found in the Procedures For Recalling State and Local Officials handbook provided by the state. The following is from page 13.
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A vote to elect successors to officers or to recall them shall be called and conducted by the Governor within 60 days of the certified signatures. (Cal. Const., Art. II, Sec. 15(a))
You may hold a recall election within 180 days after the date when sufficient signatures were certified. The election will be combined with the next scheduled regular election which is being held in the same area where the recall elections are being held. (Cal. Const., Art. II, Sec. 15(a))
The law requires that officers with duties related to elections make arrangements. In all other respects, the election must be carried out, with returns collected and declared. (Elections Code § 11110)
It sounds like Dean C. Logan, Registrar-Recorder, got the bat signal. It’s been full-court interference since the Recall Gascón effort turned in 717,000 signatures for verification to the Registrar-Recorder’s office. In order to comply with the August 17 deadline, the Registrar Recorder has the authority to validate the signatures and possibly certificate them. After 566 857 signatures are verified officially, the Registrar Recorder will need to certifiy that number. Then, the vote on George Gascon’s recall can be made on November 2022.
Today we submitted to the LA County Registrar 717,000 signatures to recall DA George Gascon — 150,000 more than required to force an election. We have thirty days for the Registrar to confirm that we have met the 566.857 signature threshold.
LA, thank you! #RecallDAGeorgeGascon pic.twitter.com/9fbDzEnfnC
— RecallDGeorgeGascon (@DAGasconRecall) July 7, 2022
You know that the powers that be do not want to see what happened to San Francisco District Attorney Chesa Boudin happen to Gascón, so they are slow-walking the verification of signatures in order to find a way to disqualify the effort.
On August 2, the Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors was scheduled to discuss the Gascón Recall and potentially order the recall be placed on the ballot.
According to the Santa Clarita Valley Signal, the agenda item was “postponed.”
An agenda item for the Board of Supervisors to possibly discuss and/or order a recall election for L.A. County District George Gascón was postponed on Tuesday as the counting of the signatures remains ongoing.
According to county officials, despite the petition’s presence on the agenda for the Tuesday’s regular meeting of the Board of Supervisors, the motion was “referred back,” meaning that the Office of the Los Angeles County Registrar-Recorder/County Clerk pulled back the motion.
There was no vote or discussion because the RRCC, according to officials, is still attempting to verify the hundreds of thousands of signatures that were submitted to remove the county’s top prosecutor.
Yeah, they’re scared, and the Recall organizers strongly suspect foul play, as is Registrar Recorder Dean C. Logan’s way. In 2004, Logan was the King County, Washington Registrar-Recorder who was instrumental in ballot stuffing the governor’s election in favor of the Democrat Christine Gregoire. Dino Rossi the Republican candidate was initially declared winner, by 261 votes. An automatic recount followed. 42 votes were needed for the second recount.Rossi was declared the winner despite this. Logan was then able to take action. As disclosed in the lawsuits filed, as reported by Seattle’s KIRO Radio:
The astonishing revelations made in the subsequent lawsuits were amazing. On the third recount, they miraculously found a few hundred more votes for Gregoire to steal away the governor’s race. There were apparently 300 illegal votes and 400 additional votes where the voter couldn’t be verified. Additionally, there was a total of 240 felons voting illegally. 44 votes came from deceased people. 10 voters voted twice. Christine Gregoire, after all the votes were counted was declared the governor.
It is discussed how Logan quit in disgrace and ended up becoming Registrar Recorder in Los Angeles.
So, we’re here.
Steve Cooley, the former L.A. District attorney and other organizers won’t be stopped. They decided to expose Logan’s current malfeasance to The Washington Examiner. The paper reported that the organizers have submitted a Public Record’s request to determine what standards Logan is ReallyTo verify the signatures
Campaign asked county for verification standards and received a training manual from a forensic analysis starting in 2015.
In 2020, state law was amended to make it simpler for county officials and signers to verify that the signature is legal. Now, the standard is to assume that the signature is true unless it appears significantly different. The signature must then be invalidated by two more officials.
Former District Attorney Steve Cooley who was one of the campaign’s lead organizers, stated that the amount of ballots rejected fell by 83% after the law was changed in 2020.
“Something is not adding up. Almost everything is not adding up,” Cooley told the Washington Examiner.
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