George Gascón Recall Campaign to Sue LA County Registrar

The second time’s the charm.

Did a technicality help save Los Angeles District Attorney George Gascón from being ousted from office this summer? The recall committee plans to sue the county’s Registrar of Voters, alleging the voter rolls were artificially inflated, and some signatures were falsely invalidated.

On Monday, the recall committee announced its lawsuit and levied allegations against the Registrar. According to the committee, independent and non-partisan data analysts estimated that Los Angeles County active voter rolls were overshot between at least 208,000 and up to 515,000 voters when county officials initially set the number of valid signatures for the recall to qualify. (RELATED: Over 700,000 Signatures Submitted to Recall Soft-on-Crime DA)

If the committee’s data is correct, the effort to remove Gascón from office could have advanced onto a ballot.

“The initial review of invalidated signatures demonstrated “the Registrar’s counting process was seriously flawed, resulting in substantial errors, the wrongful invalidation of many valid signatures, and the disenfranchisement of thousands of Los Angeles County Voters,” the Committee wrote in a statement. “These extremely disturbing findings necessitate a complete and timely review of all invalidated signatures.”

According to The Daily Wire, the Los Angeles County Registrar-Recorder/County Clerk Dean C. Logan said last August his office had finished verifying the 715,833 petition signatures sent in to recall the controversial progressive DA.

In order to advance the recall effort, 566,857 valid petition signatures were needed to qualify.

Logan’s office reported only 520,050 valid signatures were recorded, with the remaining 195,783 signatures marked as invalid, claiming ​nearly 90,000 of them were unregistered to vote and approximately 45,000 were duplicates. ​

Officials have accused the Registrar of intentionally placing “arbitrary and capricious limitations” on the review process that limits the number of hours, workstations, and number of reviewers to information that will help them determine whether the invalid signatures are legitimate.​”

“This review is currently being obstructed by the Registrar’s office,” the Committee said. “The Recall DA George Gascon Committee will be filing for injunctive relief imminently and is also exploring other significant issues, such as the inaccurate and inflated number of signatures required to qualify the recall due to bloated voter rolls.”

Gascón has faced waves of criticism for his soft-on-crime policies since entering office in 2020. The recall effort was organized by individuals who have been personally affected by Gascon’s liberal crime policies.

Earlier in the summer a similar effort successfully recalled San Fransisco DA Chesa Boudin.

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