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Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin

(115,345 posts) Sat Mar 25, 2023, 07:51 PM Mar 2023

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

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

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Signatures of hundreds of dead people were found in D.A. Gascn recall petition (Original Post) Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin Mar 2023 OP

I always thought Trump hardcore supporters were brain dead zombies, patphil Mar 2023 #1

Repugs got into this issue--and dubbed him a 'woke' prosector!! riversedge Mar 2023 #2

im tired of the way the rs use it in the negative. AllaN01Bear Mar 2023 #3

So Republicans react wiih "unwoke" voters. OAITW r.2.0 Mar 2023 #5

If I were Chesa Boudin... hippywife Mar 2023 #4

I changed my mind long ago about this "petition initiative" movement. I think it should be 86'ed. NBachers Mar 2023 #6

patphil

(6,959 posts)

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

Reply to Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin (Original post)

Sat Mar 25, 2023, 07:58 PM

Mar 2023

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

(73,132 posts)

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

Reply to Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin (Original post)

Sat Mar 25, 2023, 08:03 PM

Mar 2023

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..............................