Chilling: California Senate Committee Votes to Make it Easier to Dox Citizens Who Sign Recall Petitions

American Thinker ^ | 04/13/2021 | Victoria Taft

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The California State Senate Elections Committee is preparing a bill that would “out” the identities of every single one of the more than two million people who signed the petitions to recall Governor Gavin Newsom.

The bill, Senate Bill 663, proposed and authored by State Senator Josh Newman, was gutted and stuffed by lawmakers out of the sight of voters and reconsidered at a virtual hearing Monday in Sacramento. Newman was the last target of a California recall campaign. He was successfully recalled from office and then ran for office and won.

Under California law, an individual can remove their name from a petition they’ve signed if they later change their minds. California Democrats are hoping to remove enough names to de-certify the petitions or sully the effort. The petitions have already qualified for the ballot.

But the issue is bigger than this.

Assemblyman Kevin Kiley notes that it such a law would leave whoever signed the petition vulnerable to the partisan wolves.

A bill to expose the name and address of everyone who signs a Recall petition just passed the Senate Elections Committee. California’s counter-Enlightenment marches on.

Organizers and supporters of the Recall Gavin Newsom campaign believe senate Democrats want to use their power to intimidate voters and put pressure on them to recant their desire to boot out the Democrat governor. There’s punishment written into the law for third parties to dox the people who signed the petitions, but obviously the people on the recall campaign don’t trust the Democrats in charge.

State law already allows campaigns to look at the petitions but the recall officials believe the individuals would be left to the cancel culture hate squads. How much pressure would it take to convince someone to remove their name from a recall petition … or else?

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This is what the bill says in part:

It is the intent of the Legislature to do all of the following:

(1) Provide a mechanism for the target of a recall petition to communicate with constituents who may have signed that petition.

(2) Provide a meaningful opportunity for voters who may have signed a recall petition to withdraw their signatures.

(3) Combat the deception of voters by signature gatherers in order to obtain their signatures.[emphasis added]

 

[a fool in paradise]

I’m sure they’d like to leak the names of EVERYONE who got the Prop 8 marriage proposition on the California ballot. They ousted a CEO who donated his own money to the prop when someone illegally leaked it from the IRS.

[TheConservator]

This is a game that two can play.

Publish everything about every legislator who votes for this.

[GOP Poet]

I proudly signed

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Analysts have cautioned that the change to allow the “targets” of the recall to see the personal information could lead to doxing.

[taxcutisapayraise]

Liberalism Is A Mental Disorder

Haters Gonna Hate

Commies Gonna Commie

[Pajamajan]

There have been allegations against Newsolini involving billions, (mask deal with China just one example), and even hundreds of billions, (unemployment fraud dollars that went to foreign nations), but nobody did jack chit about it.

This nation is a corruption riddled type of Narco state.

No surprise that criminal Democrat party is threatening people.

It's what goes on in third world countries, where everyone is on the take.

[Tench_Coxe]

There is an obvious response to this, but it means getting your affairs in order first.

[DIRTYSECRET]

5 million Republicans in Calif. 1.5 million needed to bring the recall on. We should be tight enough to get it done in a week with no money, or at least very little. 80k petition gatherers worked on it and I was one of them.

[Navy Patriot]

Newsolini needs names and addresses for his Swatting List and Anonymous Red Flag tips.

[Sgt_Schultze]

No ID’s for electing somebody TO office, but positive ID when voting to REMOVE an officeholder.

[a fool in paradise]

We live in crazy world

[bobbo666]

This is one of the scearios that caused me to buy a shotgun. Anyone showing up at my door putting me in fear of my life will get told to bugger off. Just like if another BLM Ahole was marching down the street only two blocks from my house setting fire to stuff. Stay away from my home and quit putting me in fear of my life.
Don’t have to actually shoot. Just stand in doorway with shotgun in hand.
Oh, and did you notice? Now that recall is in play the Guv’na (aka Idiot) has announced that everything will open up. Even if we don’t get rid of the Ahole, we accomplished something.

[falcon99]

California is what Biden is trying to make the United States in to. A one party system/country where the Democrats authoritatively rule and seek revenge on those who do not fall in line.