Politico: Newsom Recall Drive Faces “Tight Finish”

Politico reports:

The campaign to recall California Gov. Gavin Newsom has had nearly 670,000 signatures validated with a month left to reach roughly 1.5 million, according to an official Friday update, but the total number of valid signatures submitted is likely larger.

It’s shaping up to be a tight finish for the drive to qualify only the second gubernatorial recall in California history. Longtime ballot experts say the campaign continues to have an impressive validation rate of signatures submitted, but that it could still come down to the wire based on Friday’s data release.

Officials still hadn’t processed an additional roughly 300,000 ballots, which at the reported validity rate would put organizers at around 900,000 total signatures — about 60 percent of the total needed.

Read the full article. Organizers say they are confident that they’ll reach the required number.

Going to be a tight finish for the Newsom recall drive per @JeremyBWhite https://t.co/S1hCg7gzEz

— Kevin Yamamura (@kyamamura) February 20, 2021