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The effort to recall Los Angeles District Attorney George Gascon has failed to gain enough support for ballot qualification.
A total of only 520,050 of the 715,833 signatures collected in the recall effort were valid, the registrar-recorder’s office in Los Angeles County announced. The recall effort needed 566,857 signatures to qualify.
A breakdown of the signatures deemed invalid found 88,464 signatures belonged to people who were not registered, 43,595 were duplicated, 32,187 were from different addresses, 9,490 had mismatched signatures, 7,344 were canceled, 5,374 were from out-of-county addresses, and 9,331 were deemed invalid for other reasons, according to the office.
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The campaign to unseat Gascon accused the registrar-recorder’s office of using illegal standards to verify and count recall petition signatures after volunteers delivered 717,000 signatures to the registrar. A random sampling showed that 22% of the signatures were invalid, which the campaign did not believe.
State law changed in 2020 to make it easier for county officials to declare a signature valid, with the standard holding that a signature is correct unless it looks substantially different. After the law change, the number of rejected ballots decreased by 83%, according to former District Attorney Steve Cooley, a lead campaign organizer who claimed that “almost everything is not adding up.”
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A poll conducted from May 19 through May 25 found that 45% of voters were in support of a vote to remove Gascon from his position as district attorney, while 27.1% opposed the recall. A total of 1,037 people participated in the poll, according to the Long Beach Center for Urban Politics and Policy.
