Arthur,Based on all available evidence, the LA County Registrar is not following applicable California signature verification laws in counting the 715,833 signatures we submitted to recall George Gascon.
You read that right.
In 2020, California implemented uniform guidelines for signature verification to ensure every vote is counted. These guidelines were made permanent by state law in 2022, and apply to this recall process.
According to the Registrar’s own words, they are using a process that is outdated, incorrect, and does not comply with current law.
Under current law, signature verification analysis begins with a basic presumption that the signature is in fact the voter’s signature. If the initial reviewer believes a signature is not a match, the signature can only be rejected if two separate elections officials find beyond a reasonable doubt that the signature differs in multiple, significant, and obvious respects from all signatures in the voter’s registration record.
The Registrar’s office is not following these guidelines.
Instead, the Registrar’s materials call for a reviewer to reject a signature if there are “repeated small differences”, even if there are a “great number of general similarities”. This is a violation of current law.
On Monday, we alerted the Los Angeles Board of Supervisors of our concerns. You can read the letter here.
Our election processes, including recall petitions, should be done transparently and in accordance with the law. Anything less is an infringement on our democratic voting process.
We remain confident that with a fair, transparent, and accurate signature verification process, our recall will qualify. |
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