BREAKING: The attempt to recall Los Angeles D.A. George Gascon has failed.
The recall needed around 566K valid signatures to qualify. It got 520K verified, despite submitting 715K. Of the 195K disqualified signatures, the Registrar says 131K of them were from voters who were not registered or who submitted duplicate signatures.
One of the big fears among some supporters was that the mail-in petition blitz - which sent more than 3 million petitions out to L.A. County voters late in the recall drive - would produce a lot of duplicates. That fear is somewhat borne out by what the Registrar released today.
I'll have a full story up on the results soon, but if you're catching up, here's my last long look at the recall's final push: latimes.com/california/sto…
Just 9K signatures were tossed due to a mismatch between signature on file and the one on the petition -- which was not the difference between success and fail here, effectively neutering the Recall's legal challenge last week that proper procedures weren't being followed.
Here's our first story, it will be updated ... a lot: Second effort to force Los Angeles D.A. George Gascón into recall election fails latimes.com/california/sto…
32K because the address on the petition didn't match the registered voter address on file. Additional ones were tossed for having a mismatched signature.
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