Alameda County election officials said Thursday that they will conduct a manual count of signatures submitted in a petition to recall District Attorney Pamela Price.
The county registrar of voters said the results of a random sampling of the 123,374 signatures submitted on March 4 'are not sufficient to determine whether the signature threshold to call for a recall election has been met.'The recall effort needs 73,195 signatures to qualify, Alameda County Registrar of Voters Tim Dupuis said in a news release.The Alameda County Board of Supervisors approved the public vote on the recall last November.
The recall has become a contentious issue in East Bay politics, with families of crime victims clashing with Price supporters at public forums. Last month, Price herself faced some pointed questions from Oakland business owners and residents who told her crime in the city has made living and working there next to impossible.
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