The signatures collected by a campaign to recall Los Angeles County District Attorney George Gascón have not been counted properly by the county registrar’s office, recall organizers said.
The county’s former district attorney Steve Cooley sent a letter on Aug. 8 to the Los Angeles Board of Supervisors, alleging that the registrar’s office did not follow proper guidelines when verifying signatures for the campaign during the random sampling last month.
The accusations came just a little over a month after the campaign submitted nearly 716,000 signatures to the registrar’s office on July 6 to be validated.
In a random sampling of about 5 percent, or 36,000, of the signatures, the clerk validated about 28,000, which was higher than the threshold—nearly 26,000—that would have automatically invalidated the recall petition….