J. Ray Kennedy | Other Voices
I write in response to Terry McAteer’s April 27 guest column, “California faces election nightmare.“ This response is my own and not an official response from the full California Citizens Redistricting Commission.
Thanks to the Legislature and a number of civic groups, California isn’t in quite the bind that people might imagine, and certainly in much better shape than the many other states that are still seeking a solution to the delay in the release of redistricting data.
The California Supreme Court ruled on July 17, 2020, in Legislature v. Padilla that the Aug. 15 deadline in the state Constitution should be extended to ensure that the California Citizens Redistricting Commission has the time necessary to draw the new maps.
The Gavin Newsom recall could cost $400 million. Who s paying for that?
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California Gov. Gavin Newsom speaks during a press conference April 23, 2021, in Big Sur, Calif. Nic Coury/AP
This fall s Gavin Newsom recall election is going to be expensive, with cost estimates ranging from $81 million to as much as $400 million.
Who s going to be paying for that?
The short answer: It s complicated and no one knows for sure yet.
In the 2003 recall of Gray Davis, the counties not the state footed the bill for election administration costs that were estimated to be between $42 million and $55 million. This time around, however, the state will have to contend with a line in an elections bill passed in 2017 requiring the state to pay for recall election costs that are “reasonably necessary.
Trump s big lie is alive and well in California
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California Secretary of State Shirley Weber says GOP agitators who believe former President Donald Trump’s lie about election fraud are making jobs harder for counties’ voter registrars.Salgu Wissmath / Special to The Chronicle
Californians shouldn’t look at voter suppression as something happening only in faraway states, like Georgia, Texas and Florida. A more subtle, insidious form of the fallout from Donald Trump’s big lie about widespread election fraud in the 2020 presidential race is permeating California.
The lie is gaining enough traction to alarm voting officials, starting with California Secretary of State Shirley Weber. She’s met with nearly every county registrar of voters since taking office in February, and many told her that right-wing agitators are making their job more difficult.
(AP Photo/Jeff Chiu)
I love the smell of inevitability in the morning, and an election to Recall Gavin Newsom just became inevitable. The final count of verified signatures by the California Secretary of State:
1.7 million.
Confirmed by the local news.
NEW: The campaign to recall Governor Newsom announces that the California Secretary of State confirmed today that the campaign collected 1,719,943 verified signatures, which is more than 200,000 over the 1.5 million that was required. Goes to the ballot later this year.
And the data geeks.
1,719,943
Opponents hoping to short circuit the recall need to convince 224,234 voters to withdraw their signatures by June 8th, which seems like a tall order.https://t.co/Khb5QWeetDpic.twitter.com/zfitjtWWip