AMAC Exclusive – By Andrew Abbott
Two months ago, more than half a million frustrated Los Angeles residents were shocked to hear that their attempt to recall radical Soros-backed district attorney George Gascon had failed. Though the recall effort had collected and submitted more than 715,000 signatures, far more than the 566,857 required to advance to a full recall vote on the November ballot, the Los Angeles County Registrar ruled that a staggering 195,000 of them were invalid. But now, a new lawsuit has raised questions about potential obstruction, tampering, and deep politicization of California’s signature verification process.
Earlier this month, the Recall George Gascon Committee announced that it had filed suit against the Los Angeles County Registrar for improperly rejecting valid signatures. After conducting an internal audit of all invalidated signatures, the recall campaign says that it believes about 80,000 signatures were wrongfully rejected – enough to reverse the outcome and put the recall measure on the ballot in November. These findings raise troubling questions about the integrity of the process used by the California state government to verify the signatures.
According to the recall campaign, thousands of signatures were “incorrectly invalidated as ‘non-matching’ despite showing substantial similarities to the signatures on file.” In addition, also according to the campaign, “many of the decisions to invalidate for this reason appear not to have been signed off on by multiple reviewers, as required by law.” The campaign asserts that a large number of signatures were invalidated for being “not registered” voters who were clearly registered and “could easily be identified in the voter database.”
However, the recall campaign thus far has been unable to conduct a full review of the invalidated signatures due to what they call arbitrary and capricious limitations on the review process that substantially limit review hours, workstations, number of reviewers, access to information necessary to determine the legitimacy of a signature invalidation, and more.” According to the campaign, it would take “more than a year” to review every invalidated signature. That’s why the recall campaign has now asked a court to step in and conduct a full audit.
This latest recall effort is the second against George Gascon, who has been a figure of controversy since taking office in December 2020. As one of a growing number of public prosecutors backed by liberal billionaire George Soros, Gascon has pushed for policies such as ending cash bail and charging anyone under the age of 25 as a minor, no matter what crime they have committed.
Violent crime has skyrocketed in LA under Gascon’s watch, and a number of high-profile cases have involved prior offenders who should have been in jail. In August, for example, an LA police officer was killed by repeat offenders who were let out of jail early thanks to Gascon’s policies.
Should the recall campaign win its suit, a vote to recall Gascon will be included on the November ballot. Yet, if accurate, the revelations in the suit raise major concerns far beyond one recall election. Invalidating so many signatures while disregarding and breaking clearly defined rules and regulations suggests a political motive to interfere with the recall effort that should have California residents and every American alarmed at the integrity of the election process.
Those concerns are heightened given a number of other scandals currently plaguing LA’s city government. Last year, for example, LA City Councilman Mark Ridley-Thomas was indicted on federal charges of bribery and corruption when emails revealed he had orchestrated lucrative city contracts for the University of Southern California in order to get his son a full scholarship at the school.
Last week, another LA City Council member, Nury Martinez, was also forced to resign after leaked tapes revealed racist comments made by her and several other members of the council. Martinez and her colleagues also made a number of political comments in the audio which were equally troubling. Specifically, Martinez discussed how she intended to redistrict the city along racial lines in order to protect incumbent members of the council.
These scandals paint a picture of a deeply corrupt and politicized city government. Given this and the findings by the recall campaign, it would seem that, at the very least, more time and greater access to review the city’s signature verification effort is absolutely warranted.
Andrew Abbott is the pen name of a writer and public affairs consultant with over a decade of experience in DC at the intersection of politics and culture.
CLEAN UP CALIFORNIA!!!!
Signed said petitions 2X for Gascon recall & we wonder why LA City is in the tank
As soon as it was announced that they had thrown out just enough ballots keep the recall off the Ballot it was clear to anyone with just a smidgen of intellectual honesty knew exactly how shady this was.Welcome to the Democrats Banana Republic.
They are all liars and crooks in that government I am so glad I don’t live in california.
TRUMP WON THE WHOLE WORLD KNOWS IT
Who is shocked/surprised by this democratic behavior?
They should absolutely move ahead with the audit…too much corruption.
Here’s the deal, as long as the Democrats have power, there will major issues with corruption, the Democrats don’t want honest in government, because they are control freaks.
I finally figured it out, people who vote for Democrats want bad Government!
Save America, Vote Republican!
“the integrity of the process…” is there, any? Prove it by making that Audit a priority and conducting it in an open, safe forum with equal representation of the interested parties. Prime time, by the light of day.
I don’t know why the Republicans aren’t playing the left’s game and replying with something that says, “We don’t care if you like it or not, nor what you think. Your guy is corrupt and we’re going to remove you, legally and aggressively.” The left has no problem with obtaining or going after their own judges, their own info network, etc. The excuse of, “You don’t understand, it doesn’t work that way,” from the right is worn out. It works that way for the left, it’s high time the right shoves some of the left’s own medicine down their collective throats. When the leftists realize that their “cancel intimidation” means nothing, maybe they’ll be less intent on using that as an excuse to quiet the right. Tough talk? It’s a tough game. IMO
Republicans have to stand against corruption. Have some guts and tell it like it is.
Be advised California is the “Gestapo” state ruled by traitor Democrats. They are bullies and care nothing for what is right. Soros owns them all. Gascon is nothing less that a traitor to America.
Patriots we better start mass protests.
This would be too late because I had already mailed my absentee ballot. 🙁
The “…integrity of the process…” has been in question in many precincts across the nation for too long. It is long past time for concerned citizens to join together to forcefully combat this outrageeous behavior of elected officials and their political appointees highjacking the electoral system. Stop the talk. Act.
The usual lying, cheating dems headed up by soros. No surprise. This must be stopped.
California Political Mafia strikes again! And they wonder why folks are bailing out of California like rats leaving a sinking ship. That’s OK…. just as long as the elite Hollywood clan has those illegal aliens to take care of their yards and housekeeping.
Anything the Democrats touch is corrupt. That’s all they know is lying and cheating. I’m surprised the rest of the country is put up with that party as long as they have. There’s a lot of really but stupid people that belong to that party and need to wake up. Their policies are costing everybody in this country $1,000 a month that they don’t need to be spending they need to cut everybody a check from their own pocket
Have been following the career of “Mr. Gascon” and find that he corrupt to his core. Being a Soros-backed lackey, he embodies all that is wrong with our government, from the county, state and federal level. Like him or hate him, Donald Trump was right about draining the swamp. But it is far deeper and larger than anyone could imagine. We need to take back our country. This rot has been going on for more than 50 years.
I think democrats are hell bent in remaking the country in their image Anyone wishing to see results look no further than S America or Africa
If anybody is organizing mass protests please let me know. We need to get out in the streets and make noise! We have to get the attention of low information voters and we need to throw the book at every corrupt activist in the electoral system since the Secretary of State of California does NOTHING!
Democrats are and ALWAYS have been a bane on our country since their inception as a party. There is not one single piece of legislation anyone can rightfully point to as having helped the country they have been behind. They get credit for things they had nothing to do with.
The left is pure evil.
RED=REMOVE EVERY DEMOCRAT
Don’t forget to vote and keep an eye out for voter fraud!!!!!!
Looking forward to No-more “Soros-backed” anything. C’mon Father Time and Mother Nature, 92 year old George Soros is waiting, take him
The recall organizers were urged to get twice the number of signatures needed to hedge against these tricks. This advise was based on the experience of others who had “been there/done that” and have been successful in other similar campaigns. These organizers ignored the advise and LA is paying the price. Nothing can happen before the November election since ballots went out last week. LA is stuck with their own garbage
As long as the fox is in charge of the henhouse, the safety, prosperity and will of the people will be denied. Im sure the Newscum recall was also fixed. California was a beautiful place when I grew up there, but now I wouldn’t even return for a visit!
The citizens of all of California need to wake up and see the huge ” Red Tidal Wave” emerging throughout the rest of country ! Even the geographical liberal bastion in Oregon & Washington is fed up with the Democrat ruling elite ! We need to get our country back ! it starts with ” draining the swamp ! Wake up California ! Despite what Newscum says ” We are not the model for the rest of the country ! We could be the envy of the country if we had a government that unleased the power of
the private sector ! Remember , California is the worlds fifth largest economy in the world. Be a part of the solution and not a part of problem ! Vote out all Democrats ! They are the problem !
So the dead remain counted on dem’s voter rolls, but real live people who are anti-dem are nullified. Typical outcome.
Just another example of how badly our so-called secure elections are being run. The Democrats want everyone to believe the there was no tampering with the election laws in the 7or 8 swing states. Now election information has been found in China. There has been fraud and tampering in the Gore / Bush elections and even back further. Hey Joe, c’mon man the Trump haters finally found a way to put clown in the White house.
I understand that there is someone in the Soros family that will take over the operation when the elder can no longer control things. I do not know this as a fact, but remember reading about a similar leaning successor some time back. I hope it is not true.
Isn’t it just amazing how Cal-E-Forn-E-Cate can find find to invalidate signatures when their butt is sitting on the hot seat, BUT then all this illegals can vote without ANY consequence at all!
Democrats are cheating bustards.
As Kevin Sorbo has said “no matter how bad you think that you have it, there are still people living in California.”
Is this much the same “technique” that turned around the Gavin Newsome recall?
And this seems a lot like Joe Biden and his “victory”.
God save the republic. Vote for a woman you can trust in 2023 national election the mother of twins Jenny Beth Martin would make a historical first woman president that cares about USA children 2024
I try to be humble and honest. If a corrupt person knows that if they are caught that there is no restitution other than a lost political position These people see no reason to be honest?? Just keep it up. The higher the position the higher the corruption!! Now if the dishonest politicians were to be sent to Menard federal prison in Illinois to meet “Big Mike” I feel very sure that a lot of corruption would be averted.How can a man spend four million of his money to get elected to a five hundred thousand a year position. Let me guess???
Commiefornia is a lost cause
Facebook is blocking all articles from AMAC. It won’t let me share any of them! 🙁
Power breeds corruption and absolute power breeds absolute corruption! The current crop of corrupt politicians in Kalifornia need to be replaced with men and women who take their oath to support and defend the Constitution seriously regardless of the political party they belong to! Regrettably, most of them have sold their soul to the highest bidder.
This is OUTRAGEOUS!! Just another ploy by the far left to destroy America and they don’t give a flip who they hurt in the process as long as their Agenda gets pushed through. Despicable ????????
Soros should absolutely be stopped, charged for his many crimes against America and jailed til he dies. The same for his son and anyone else who interferes and or attempts to affect the outcome of America’s elections, and there are many. That includes the owners of Facebook, Twitter, Google, CNN, ABC, MSNBC, et al who had a hand in silencing the known crimes of Hunter Biden and all the data on his laptop. that would also include our FBI, DOJ, Joe Biden and all of his administration.
There is a word for corrupt politicans and legal administration, Tradiors! In both cases they are sworn to protect. If someone in the military did something like that they would be in prison for a very long time. They should be serving time right now!