{"id":756457,"date":"2021-09-15T19:06:28","date_gmt":"2021-09-15T23:06:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=756457"},"modified":"2021-09-15T19:06:30","modified_gmt":"2021-09-15T23:06:30","slug":"calif-ruling-democrats-seek-to-make-it-harder-to-trigger-a-future-recall-election","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/calif-ruling-democrats-seek-to-make-it-harder-to-trigger-a-future-recall-election\/","title":{"rendered":"Calif. ruling Democrats seek to make it harder to trigger a future recall election"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">28<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fcalif-ruling-democrats-seek-to-make-it-harder-to-trigger-a-future-recall-election%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=756457&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div id=\"attachment_2521087\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\">\n<p id=\"caption-attachment-2521087\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">SAN FRANCISCO, CALIFORNIA \u2013 SEPTEMBER 14: California Gov. Gavin Newsom speaks to union workers and volunteers on election day at the IBEW Local 6 union hall on September 14, 2021 in San Francisco, California. (Photo by Justin Sullivan\/Getty Images)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<h5>OAN Newsroom<br \/>UPDATED 3:52 PM PT \u2013 Wednesday, September 15, 2021<\/h5>\n<p>State lawmakers in California are already taking steps to make it more difficult to hold a recall election moving forward. Reports on Wednesday cited California Secretary of State Shirley Weber saying the recall process needed to be changed, noting it hasn\u2019t been revised in a century.<\/p>\n<p>Weber stated in an interview, \u201cwhat can we do to really make it a system that we believe in? We\u2019re going to do some work on that.\u201d<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Thank you Californians for coming together in these unprecedented times to vote in the <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/2021CARecallElection?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#2021CARecallElection<\/a>. Please be patient as counties certify the results. Take this time to check BallotTrax for your ballot updates. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/jIEmWYqpSp\">https:\/\/t.co\/jIEmWYqpSp<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 CA SOS Vote (@CASOSvote) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/CASOSvote\/status\/1438246352962691081?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">September 15, 2021<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>California Democrats have proposed doubling the amount of signatures needed to qualify for a recall election, raising filing fees and requiring candidates to have signatures from different parts of the state. This comes as a <a href=\"https:\/\/escholarship.org\/uc\/item\/6kt7w3ts\">study by UC Berkeley<\/a> found 75 percent of voters support recall elections, but say reform is needed.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIn five different counties, you need to have X number of signatures. So, it\u2019s not enough to just send signature gatherers to your hometown,\u201d said professor of political science at UC Berkeley, Eric Shickler.<\/p>\n<p>The California State Senate Election Committee has already approved two measures, which would ban compensation for petition circulators for signatures they get for a recall effort.<\/p>\n<p>In the meantime, Shickler suggested, \u201cthe results [from the UC Berkeley poll] show that at the time of the Newsom recall, most voters, including a majority of Democrats, support recall elections in principle, but also favor reforms that would impose somewhat higher hurdles in bringing future recall elections to the ballot.\u201d<\/p>\n<h4>MORE NEWS: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.oann.com\/fda-staff-declines-to-take-a-stance-on-the-need-for-third-booster-shot\/\">FDA Staff Declines To Take A Stance On The Need For Third Booster Shot<\/a><\/h4>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>SAN FRANCISCO, CALIFORNIA \u2013 SEPTEMBER 14: California Gov. 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