The Secretary of State has 10 days to "certify" the recall petition. I have to check if it is business days or 10 days period.
So the soonest the petitions will be ready (it keeps slipping back but this is OK as the initial push for the recall was WAY too soon before anyone was organized enough to act) will be likely between Feb. 24th and Feb. 27th
The minute the petitions are available, if you have signed up at www.RecallGrayDavis.com you will be notified because the petition will be UPLOADED to the Recall Gray Davis website.
You will be able to download the petition, print it, sign it and get others to sign.
At that time more specific instructions will be given.
To be fair to Ted Costa and his group which will be using the same recall petitions as ours I believe they are also going to *try* to get the petition online at their People's Advocate website.
And I believe BOTH The Recall Gray Davis Committee and People's Advocate will be mailing them out in the regular mail to anyone who has trouble downloading it (and to those without computers obviously!)
The precise timing of the election depends on a variety of factors including when the recall proceedings against Governor Davis officially begin – in other words when a notice of intent to recall is served on Governor Gray Davis and filed with the Secretary of State.
From this point there is a 10-day period for the Secretary of State to review the petition. If there are any legal problems or concerns about wording, then the recall proponents will have 10 days to correct the petition as necessary.
Once the finalized petition is completed, the proponents of the recall have 160 days to collect the requisite number of valid signatures (897,156 valid signatures, which represents 12% of the number of voters who turned out to vote for governor during the last gubernatorial election
Mrs Kus