A count of a random sampling of signatures for the recall of Los Angeles District Attorney George Gascón pushed the endeavor into a new phase July 14 as the county clerk will now need to verify the rest of the submitted signatures.
The LA County Clerk reviewed about 36,000 signatures at random, which is 5 percent of the nearly 716,000 signatures the campaign submitted.
About 28,000 of the reviewed signatures were authenticated. That was higher than the nearly 26,000 threshold that would have automatically invalidated the recall petition.
But it was still lower than the 31,000 needed for the petition to be automatically certified.
Now the county clerk’s office must conduct a count of all signatures by Aug. 17. The recall requires 566,857 signatures to appear on the November ballot….