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Recall Gascón Campaign Falls Short By Over 40,000 Signatures

The Los Angeles County Registrar announced Monday that the campaign to recall L.A. District Attorney George Gascón had failed to collect enough valid signatures to qualify for the November ballot.

Of approximately 715,833 signatures submitted on July 6 by the Recall Gascón campaign, 520,050 signatures were found to be valid and 195,783 were found to be invalid, according to the Registrar’s office.

“To qualify the recall for the ballot, the petition required 566,857 valid signatures; therefore, the petition has failed to meet the sufficiency requirements and no further action shall be taken on the petition,” read Monday’s statement.

The collected signatures fall short of the required goal by 46,807, with approximately 27 percent of the collected signatures deemed invalid.

According to the L.A. County Registrar, several issues plagued the petition to attempt to recall the District Attorney.

A summary breakdown of the invalid signatures is as follows:

  • Not Registered: 88,464
  • Max Number of Times Signed (Duplicate): 43,593
  • Different Address: 32,187
  • Mismatch Signature: 9,490
  • Canceled: 7,344
  • Out of County Address: 5,374
  • Other: 9,331

“This is extremely disappointing.  Santa Clarita was the first city in L.A. County to hold a vote of no confidence  in D.A. Gascón, as his policies and ideologies place criminals above victims, and hinder the ability of our law enforcement personnel to keep our community safe, and dangerous people off the streets,” said Santa Clarita Mayor Pro Tem Jason Gibbs. “Even if the disqualification stands, our city will always be committed to calling out these reckless policies, supporting our local deputies and first responders,and doing all we can to protect our residents with every tool we have.”

Ed. Note: Jade Aubuchon and Louie Diaz contributed to this article.


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Recall Gascón Campaign Falls Short By Over 40,000 Signatures

17 comments

  1. What a surprise, more voting irregularities regarding a Liberal Demon! There were plenty of excess recall votes needed for the recall & like magic, lots were considered invalid————-We live in special, magical times, males can become females, rampant crime, all the major cities in total degradation, Liberals are doing a great job————

  2. Who counted the votes?

  3. It is impossible to overthrow a tyrant and we are seeing it in real-time. Voters drank the kool-aid and we are stuck with him and his ilk forever. There is an endless supply of Soros-funded candidates lined up for this when his term comes up, each with the same flowery messaging about reforms that will work equally as well with the uninformed electorate.

  4. Forget recall this guy needs to be FIRED! We have now seen several cases of violent criminals returned to the streets within hours of being arrested on violent charges for which they were already awaiting trial for other violent crimes. The DA is supposed to be protecting the innocent citizens not the criminals. Our law enforcement officers get frustrated when they do their jobs only to have this DA fail to do his. This makes the criminals even more brazen since to them an arrest is merely a minor inconvenience and nothing more. And you wonder why citizens are increasingly arming themselves to protect themselves?

  5. This is such BS! More election corruption. I know for a fact that if you don’t fill out the form correctly it will be sent back to you telling you what needs to be changed then you send it back and it is scrutinized to make sure everything checks out before its submitted. Just like for Newsom. They threw out 20% of the forms because they said they were wrong. The Republicans think they will win in November? Ha ha! We are screwed. Just like the 2020 fraud.

    • This was a recall petition NOT a recall ballot. A person signs the petition once, the County Registrar’s Office does not return a petition (there are multiple signatures on every page). BIG DIFFERENCE.

      The only fraud perpetrated in 2020 was from Trump and his cronies. Trump lost, get over it.

  6. Here is a video of the corrupt Democrat District Attorneys that have received money from Geroge Soros, in return to let criminals out of jail or receive zero jail time. Please watch and forward to your friends. I can’t believe the big tech Democrat oligarchs at YouTube haven’t removed this video yet. Remember “everything the Left touches turns to sh…”

    https://youtu.be/S1SF6dOzJus

    • Rufus, Thanks for the disgusting Demonic link——Unbelievable what that Creature has done to all Americans & so scary/disgusting that even the Liberals go along with it!

  7. The saddest part of all of this, is the morons who voted for the man! Seriously, you can’t argue or fix stupid. Unbelievable this guy continues to be in office!

  8. All above, well spoken, truthful, accurate & disgusting! These Liberal Demons are ruining our once wonderful (not perfect), beautiful world!

  9. Welcome to the likes of Venezuela people.

  10. How predictable.

    This signature collection campaign was more than adequately funded to collect >30% more than the required number to account for the “Mickey Mouse” invalid numbers, but instead elected resorting to mass mailings and the like at near the deadline?

    It makes one wonder what is really going on here? Are the purposes of those who put forth the recall effort better served by going through yet another recall election doomed to fail? Or, by intentionally spiking the signature effort and keeping the base perpetually enraged, guaranteeing they stay perpetually engaged?

  11. How predictable.

    This signature collection campaign was more than adequately funded to collect >30% more than the required number to account for the “Mickey Mouse” invalid numbers, but instead elected resorting to mass mailings and the like at near the deadline?

    It makes one wonder what is really going on here? Are the purposes of those who put forth the recall effort better served by going through yet another recall election doomed to fail? Or, by intentionally spiking the signature effort and keeping the base perpetually enraged, guaranteeing they stay perpetually engaged?

  12. Watch 2,000 Mules! How many dregs were paid to infiltrate with fake signatures, etc.?! The Liberal corruption is overwhelming in all aspects of once decent life!!

  13. This is too bad, It’s hard to get rid of an authoritarian

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