Recall Newsom petition had more security than our election
I volunteered for a movement known as Recall Newsom, or recallgavin2020. It was an attempt at trying to recall California's current Governor, Gavin Newsom. I volunteered at various events hosted by other people, and even organized my own signing event.
I recently left California, so I really don't know what is going on with the movement. We had pages of petition sheets. Each page was for a specific county. Each sheet had room for 5 people to sign. The form needed the signer's full name, signature, and address.
If someone:
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Signed on the wrong county's page
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Didn't write out their name exactly as it is on their voter registration
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Abbreviated anything in their address (example: 123 Some Street 123 Some ST.)
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let any of their writing go out of any of the proper boxes
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Had anything in an empty box to the right or left
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a few other things I don't remember currently
…their signature would be void.
Additionally, if someone wrote outside of their "area", the whole page was void. We had to get sticky notes to put on the page so people would not void the petition.
Oh, also, 100% of the signatures where matched, by hand.
So California requires signature matching for recalling the governor, but not for electing the next president? Wow.
Here is a photo of our blank petition
https://thedonald.win/p/11QlPDuT4R/recall-newsom-petition-had-more-/c/