A total of 1,719,943 signatures have been certified as verified in the campaign to recall Gov. Gavin Newsom, California’s Secretary of State said May 5. To trigger an election, 1,495,709 verified signatures were needed, meaning supporters exceeded the minimum threshold by 15 percent. Final tallies show that 2,161,349 verified signatures were submitted to the Secretary of State’s office by county registrars, with 441,406 signatures invalidated by the office. Los Angeles County had the most valid and submitted signatures of California’s 58 counties, reaching 264,495 valid signatures of 328,224 submitted signatures, California Republican Party data director Cole Patterson told The Epoch Times. While overall trends of party affiliation by those who signed the petition have not been released, Patterson said a lot of left-leaning counties had many signatures submitted. “The Secretary of State has not released party affiliation of signers, but they have released county-by- county info,” Patterson said. “Los Angeles County, San Diego County, San Bernardino County, Fresno County, Riverside County and Orange County are all …