{"id":123466,"date":"2021-06-24T14:35:08","date_gmt":"2021-06-24T21:35:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/69.46.6.243\/?p=123466"},"modified":"2021-06-24T14:35:08","modified_gmt":"2021-06-24T21:35:08","slug":"counties-report-total-withdrawn-recall-signatures-enough-remain-to-initiate-recall-election","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/?p=123466","title":{"rendered":"Counties Report Total Withdrawn Recall Signatures; Enough Remain to Initiate Recall Election"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Sacramento, CA&#8230;California Secretary of State Shirley N. Weber, Ph.D. notified the Department of Finance (DOF) by <a href=\"https:\/\/elections.cdn.sos.ca.gov\/recalls\/recall-notice-dept-finance.pdf\">letter<\/a>\u00a0today that county elections officials\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/elections.cdn.sos.ca.gov\/recalls\/recall-final-withdrawn-signatures.pdf\">reported<\/a>\u00a0a total of 43<b>\u00a0<\/b>signatures have been withdrawn statewide from petitions to recall Governor Gavin Newsom, and that the remaining 1,719,900<b>\u00a0<\/b>verified signatures still meet the threshold to initiate a recall election.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/dailytide.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/67537480_2763060560372996_2103736979433717760_n.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-10000\" src=\"https:\/\/dailytide.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/67537480_2763060560372996_2103736979433717760_n.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"244\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>A sufficient number of verified recall signatures had previously been reached by recall proponents in April. However, in accordance with California election law, voters were given a 30-day period from April 26 to June 8<sup>th<\/sup>\u00a0to request county officials remove their signatures from recall petitions.<\/p>\n<p>Secretary Weber\u2019s letter to the Department of Finance triggers the next phase of the recall process in which the DOF will estimate the costs of the gubernatorial recall if it is held as a special election and if it is held as part of the next regularly scheduled election. These estimated costs must be submitted to the\u00a0Governor,\u00a0the Lieutenant\u00a0Governor, the Secretary of State, and the Chairperson of the Joint Legislative Budget Committee (JLBC) by\u00a0August 5.\u00a0Once the JLBC has had 30 days to review and comment, the Secretary of State will then certify the sufficiency of signatures pursuant to statute.<\/p>\n<p>Additional information on the potential recall election is provided on the Secretary of State\u2019s Elections Division\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.sos.ca.gov\/elections\/recalls\/current-recall-efforts\/newsom-recall-faqs\">website<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">###<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\" align=\"center\">Source = CA Sec of State<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sacramento, CA&#8230;California Secretary of State Shirley N. Weber, Ph.D. notified the Department of Finance (DOF) by letter\u00a0today that county elections officials\u00a0reported\u00a0a total of 43\u00a0signatures have been withdrawn statewide from petitions to recall Governor Gavin Newsom, and that the remaining 1,719,900\u00a0verified signatures still meet the threshold to initiate a recall election. A sufficient number of verified [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":123468,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_cbd_carousel_blocks":"[]","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[20,5,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-123466","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-featured","category-government","category-news","last_archivepost"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/67537480_2763060560372996_2103736979433717760_n.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/123466","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=123466"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/123466\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/123468"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=123466"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=123466"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=123466"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}