Newsom's recall from the post of the head of California looks more and more real: there are already more than 1,7 million signatures

The California governor's recall is becoming more real. Verification of signatures continues, but there is a possibility that a sufficient number of signatures have already been collected to bring this issue to a vote, writes Fox News.

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Randy Economie, a senior adviser to the campaign to remove Gavin Newsom from his post as head of California, says he is "pretty damn sure" that the issue of removing the governor will be on the ballot papers this summer.

“I think we have achieved our goal. We’re thrilled,” Economy said. - In fact, we collected more than 1 signatures, this is a net amount. It takes a little time to go through the process of verifying these signatures in 720 different counties. Registrars will verify the signatures. The last person to count them will be the secretary of state, but I'm damn sure we'll get this on the ballot this summer.”

The latest report available from the Secretary of State on the matter shows that signature verification is proceeding rather slowly. The signatures that the campaign organizers had collected as of February 5 are currently being verified; new ones have not yet been started. Of the nearly 5 million signatures collected as of Feb. 1,1, the county has verified only a fraction — 798. The report shows that of the 798 signatures verified, almost 310% (84) were found to be valid.

Political experts in California say this is a very high percentage. In their opinion, at the moment there is every reason to believe that the question of recalling Newsom will reach the ballots. According to the California constitution, leaders of the recall campaign must collect 1 valid signatures by March 495. This number is equivalent to 709% of the votes cast in the last governor's election. According to Economi, there are now 17 unverified signatures. It is possible that there are already enough of them to eventually get 12 approved signatures, and the team of proponents of the revocation has three more weeks to attract even more signers.

Who supports the review and why

The initiative enjoys the support of “all walks of life,” including the 300 Democrats who have already signed the petition, in addition to Republicans and independent voters.

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“When he shut down the fifth-largest economy in the world, opened the prisons, released the prisoners, but locked us down—45 million people in the state—it became a real problem, and we knew we had reached the limit,” Economy said.

He explained that the recall gained traction after Newsom's trip to French Laundry last year, where he allegedly violated state restrictions related to the coronavirus pandemic.

“This is hypocrisy and his failed leadership as governor,” is how Economy described the reasons for the recall.

What's next

If the required number of varied signatures is collected in time, then the governor's revocation will be voted on by residents of California. However, it is unclear in what month the measure will end up on the ballot because there are a number of bureaucratic steps that must be taken at various levels of regional government before the lieutenant governor of the state can officially announce the recall vote.

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As ForumDaily wrote earlier:

• California residents demand to recall the governor... Supporters of the withdrawal hope to collect 2 million signatures by March 17 to vote on the issue, although only 1,5 million are needed to hold elections in the middle of the year.
• During a press conference at the Fresno City Fair on February 10, the California governor was repeatedly interrupted by chants of “Recall Newsom!” How Newsom went from the favorite of millions to the hated governor - read in our material.

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