Signatures of hundreds of dead people were found in D.A. Gascn recall petition

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

More than 300 signatures in a petition to recall Los Angeles County Dist. Atty. George Gascón last year belonged to dead people, according to the county's Registrar-Recorder/County Clerk's office.

Now the agency has called on the California attorney general to investigate the possibility of fraud in the failed attempt to recall Gascón, whose reform-minded policies have become a target of Republican and conservative critics.

According to the Registrar-Recorder/County Clerk's office, a review of the petition found 367 signatures of people who had died before the recall effort was launched.

The findings were similar to a review of another petition, statewide Initiative 1935, in which county officials found 344 signatures of dead petitioners. The initiative was meant to limit local and state government from expanding, enacting or modifying taxes and fees.

https://www.yahoo.com/news/signatures-hundreds-dead-people-were-013939678.html

[patphil]

1. I always thought Trump hardcore supporters were brain dead zombies,

and now we see that they really are...dead that is.
I have a vision of them doing that herky-jerky walk into the voting location, while Michael Jackson's "Thriller" plays in the background.
You know; that part where they all dance in unison.

[riversedge]

2. Repugs got into this issue--and dubbed him a 'woke' prosector!!

damn--I am so tired of that term!!


..........Elected in 2020, Gascón immediately faced criticism and an effort to remove him from office after he announced changes to the prosecutors office. His changes included ending the use of sentencing enhancements, limiting when defendants would be held in lieu of bail, and no longer seeking the death penalty in the county.

The changes put Gascón not just at odds with many of his own prosecutors and local law enforcement officials, but made him a target of Republican and conservative figures on the national stage who suggested that progressive, or derisively dubbed "woke," prosecutors were to blame for increases in crime.

A first recall effort failed in 2021 largely because of a lack of fundraising and organization. A second effort failed last year after about 715,000 signatures were submitted by the recall campaign. A total of 566,857 signatures, or 10% of eligible voters, were needed to put Gascón's job back on the ballot, but the registrar's office said roughly 27% of the signatures submitted were not valid.

Most of them were found to have been duplicate signatures or from people who were not registered to vote..............................

[AllaN01Bear]

3. im tired of the way the rs use it in the negative.

[OAITW r.2.0]

5. So Republicans react wiih "unwoke" voters.

Kinda makes sense when you think about it.

[hippywife]

4. If I were Chesa Boudin...

I'd be asking for another gander at the petition that ousted him in SF, especially given the shadiness of his replacement.

[NBachers]

6. I changed my mind long ago about this "petition initiative" movement. I think it should be 86'ed.