Los Angeles County registrar officials have filed court papers disputing allegations that they improperly invalidated signatures on petitions seeking to force a recall election against District Attorney George Gascón, a process that ultimately killed the high-profile campaign.
Flores filed the declaration in response to an October lawsuit from the Committee to Support the Recall of District Attorney George Gascón, which isto bolster its efforts to review the disqualified petition signatures. Additionally, the committee is seeking an electronic copy of everyone who signed petitions, registrar training materials, and other data used to disqualify petition signers.
Signatures that were invalidated as “printed” even when the voter’s signature on file was itself printed. Signatures that were invalidated as duplicates without election officials counting at least one of the alleged duplicates, as required by law. An initial attempt to recall Gascón fizzled in early 2021, when organizers apparently were hampered by the rapid spread of COVID-19. The second attempt, launched in October 2021, was bolstered by a no-confidence vote from officials in 36 cities.critics maintain coddle criminal defendants
“The registrar could not accommodate these requests because they involved access to voter information that the law specifically makes confidential and not subject to disclosure, in order to safeguard voters’ privacy and to protect them from harassment,” Flores said.