Signatures mess means more work needed in Cannizzaro recall effort

A recall effort targeting a Democratic state senator will need a detailed vetting process to determine if it can move forward, the Nevada Secretary of State’s office said Tuesday.

The state elections department determined that the petition submitted in an attempt to oust state Sen. Nicole Cannizzaro, D-Las Vegas, failed to reach the needed signature threshold to force a special election, Deputy Secretary of State Wayne Thorley wrote in a letter to Clark County Registrar of Voters Joe Gloria.

Gloria’s office must verify more than 1,200 individual signatures before the state can determine what happens next, according to the letter.

Nevada Democrats called the decision a “improvised interpretation” of the verification process and saying they suspect “partisan roots” from the office run by Republican Barbara Cegavaske.

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