Newsom Recall Movement Hits Signature Goal, But Government Office Can Still Swoop In and Kill the Effort; Verification of signatures begins, and related stories

Newsom Recall Movement Hits Signature Goal, But Government Office Can Still Swoop In and Kill the Effort

Although the effort to recall California Gov. Gavin Newsom has topped the legal minimum of just under 1.5 million signatures to force a vote, organizers are keeping a wary eye on state officials who are winnowing down the signature total.

On Saturday, organizers of the effort to hold an election that could lead to Newsom’s recall said they had collected 1.5 million signatures, more than the 1,495,709 needed to force a vote, according to KABC-TV.

But nothing is ever quite that simple.

As organizers keep getting more signatures, officials with the office of the California secretary of state go over the list to exclude those state officials say are ineligible.

The most recent update from the office of the secretary of state said that as of Jan. 6, 16 percent of the signatures filed were invalid. --->READ MORE HERE

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Verification of signatures begins in effort to recall California Governor Gavin Newsom:

The process of verifying signatures continues in the recall effort for Governor Gavin Newsom.

Organizers of Recall Gavin 2020 said it has collected more than 1.5 million signatures. Now those in charge of the movement must verify all of them. If all the signatures are legitimate, a recall election would happen sometime this summer. --->READ MORE HERE

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