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How Alameda County hand count impacts Pamela Price

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Not long after the dust settled on Alameda County’s initial attempt to determine if a recall election for District Attorney Pamela Price can actually take place, new chaos ensued. The county’s Registrar of Voters office said Thursday it would need to undertake a manual count of the 123,374 petition signatures turned in by recall supporters … Read more

Alameda County to manually count Pamela Price recall signatures

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Alameda County election officials will manually count the petition signatures submitted to recall District Attorney Pamela Price after an initial attempt failed to establish whether there are enough valid signatures to trigger an election. The manual count, by California law, is allowed to last 30 days — and that’s close to how long it will … Read more

Pamela Price backers and critics should back recall reform

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Click here for a complete list of our election recommendations. The effort to recall District Attorney Pamela Price has unmasked Alameda County’s broken rules for removing an official from office. Of California’s 58 counties, 14 have their own charters rather than relying on state law to guide them. And Alameda County has the only charter … Read more