Comments on: Recall Effort against CA Sen. Aisha Wahab Falls Apart https://www.sanjoseinside.com/news/recall-effort-against-ca-sen-aisha-wahab-falls-apart/ A look inside San Jose politics and culture Fri, 31 May 2024 14:29:45 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=5.6.12 By: Vacancy Vaquero https://www.sanjoseinside.com/news/recall-effort-against-ca-sen-aisha-wahab-falls-apart/#comment-1806142 Thu, 30 May 2024 00:03:17 +0000 https://www.sanjoseinside.com/?p=201209186#comment-1806142 The state Elections Code has many details, but it’s mostly cut-and-dried. There are 10,000 sections of your petition and each one requires an attestation from a circulator. It sounds like the SoS allowed your campaign to “cure” the missing signatures, but you were unable to do so in the remaining time.

Why is it “their mistake” or “their error”? They are bureaucrats following a checklist and the due dates are set by state law.

]]> By: Ritesh Tandon https://www.sanjoseinside.com/news/recall-effort-against-ca-sen-aisha-wahab-falls-apart/#comment-1806138 Wed, 29 May 2024 21:52:15 +0000 https://www.sanjoseinside.com/?p=201209186#comment-1806138 The CA SOS said to proceed with the problematic application while simultaneously asking us to go back to the 10,000 forms missing circulator signatures and collect signatures from every circulator.

We were prepared to comply and requested a little more time from the CA SOS due to their mistake, but they did not grant us the extension.

We also requested the CA SOS to waive the circulator signature requirement due to their error, but they did not agree.

It feels like we are no longer in a democracy, as the CA SOS can seemingly do whatever they want.

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