Signature threshold met to recall CA Gov. Gavin Newsom
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A petition calling for the recall of California Gov. Gavin Newsom has collected enough verified signatures to qualify for a recall election. Photo by Charlie Nguyen under CC BY 2.0
Critics of California Gov. Gavin Newsom collected enough signatures for a recall election.
There were 1,626,042 verified signatures for the recall, which exceeds the threshold requirement of 1,495,709 signatures, according to a press release from California Secretary of State Shirley Weber. Unless enough voters withdraw their signatures before June 8, the recall election will be held by the year’s end.
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Palm Springs Desert Sun
California s secretary of state said Monday that organizers of a petition drive to force a recall election of Gov. Gavin Newsom have gathered more than 1.6 million valid signatures more than enough to qualify for the ballot.
The 1.6 million signatures are about 100,000 more than needed to force a vote on the first-term Democrat.
However, the validation process won t be complete until Thursday. That s the deadline for county elections officials to verify the validity of any remaining signatures and report the final signature verification.
After that, the clock starts ticking on a period of 30 business days during which voters may ask county elections officials to remove their names from recall petitions up until June 8.
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The California Secretary of State s office announced Monday night that organizers had collected enough verified signatures to trigger an election to recall Democratic Gov. Gavin Newsom.
Organizers needed just short of 1.5 million verified signatures to trigger a statewide ballot. The state announced that it had verified 1,626,042 signatures, with more to verify in the coming days.