The campaign to recall Gov. Gavin Newsom has bypassed the number of raw signatures needed to initiate a special election, according to a campaign manager behind the effort. Rescue California—an organization spearheading an effort to put the recall election on the ballot—has received more than 1.5 million signatures, Anne Hyde Dunsmore told The Epoch Times Feb. 10. It expects to reach 1.6 million during the weekend, Dunsmore added. Despite reaching the number of signatures technically required to trigger a recall election, Rescue California hopes to ultimately see about 1.8 million signatures, since many are discarded during the validation process. Organizations have until March 17 to meet the 1,495,709 verified signature mark. The high volume of signatures being collected to recall the governor comes as Californians are frustrated with close to a year’s worth of tight restrictions on businesses, loss of jobs, and closing of schools, all while seemingly making little difference to the spread of the CCP Virus. The governor also received additional negative press after he was photographed defying …