California Secretary of State’s website.To mount a recall, opponents simply have to gather petition signatures from a number of registered voters equal to 12% of the turnout vote in the last gubernatorial election.
Signatures from at least five counties must each equal 1% of the total number of votes cast in the last election for governor in the county.
Opponents of Newsom submitted more than 1.7 million signatures, well in excess of the 1,495,709 required to trigger a recall election.A recall election against sitting Gov.
Gray Davis (D) over the state’s energy crisis in 2003 resulted in actor and former bodybuilder Arnold Schwarzenegger (R) becoming the state’s governor.On Sept.
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