[heleny]

From the article: The Secretary of State failed to report the official numbers in public, so the AP asked each county for their count. As of June 16, excluding Placer, Tehama, and Trinity counties, the sum of (unverified) signatures from the other 55 counties was 389,337. Many counties have reported receiving thousands more signatures since that date.

Of the total signatures, including ones not yet sent to the counties, Ted Costa said on the radio that San Diego County voters have sent 113k signatures and Orange County voters have sent 104k signatures, so those two counties are in 1st and 2nd place, respectively.

[fieldmarshaldj]

I'll tell you one thing, I don't trust that leftist twit Kevin Shelley with certifying the recall petitions. You know he's gonna pull some sort of stunt disqualifying it.

[CityOnAHill]

The Secretary of State failed to report the official numbers in public

Can someone correct me if I'm wrong, but I believe that the Secratary of State is REQUIRED by law to report the offical numbers.

As far as Ms. Wills goes:"At some point the disconnect between the spin of the proponents and the reality of the reporting - the actual verifiable reporting - has to be called into question," said Carroll Wills, spokesman for Taxpayers Against the Recall.

I suggest she takes a look at this chart . Anybody can see how closely the number of signatures turned in matches the reported number. On June 15th the number is just under 400,000. You can't get more accurate than that.

[Ernest_at_the_Beach]

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[longtermmemmory]

This sounds more like a media effort to deflate efforts to collect signatures. This is a momentum killer effort. I would be interested in the background of the author of the article.

[heleny]

for the record, the article on other sites credited Erica Werner from the Associated Press.

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Davis recall effort now at 389337 signatures -- Los Angeles Daily News
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Recall nears halfway mark -- Long Beach Press-Telegram
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