2020-011 - Accepting the Certificate as to Verification of Signatures

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CERTIFICATE OF SUFFICIENCY OF RECALL PETITION I, Daisy Gomez, Clerk of the Councfl for the City of Santa Ana, County of Orange, State of California, do hereby certify: That proponents filed with my office on December 18, 2019 a petition to recall Cecilia Iglesias holding the office of Councilmember, Ward 6 in the City of Santa Ana, California. The petition was delivered to the Orange County Registrar of Voters on December 20, 2019 to verify the signatures. That said petition consisted of 4,131 sections, and that each section contains signatures purporting to be 16,414 signatures of qualified electors of the City of Santa Ana, California- The petition is considered sufficient to quafdy if signed by at least 10% of the 108,646 registered voters in the City of Santa Ana. That attached to said petition at the time it was filed, was an affidavit purporting to be the affidavit of the person who solicited the signatures, and containing the dales between which the purported qualfied electors signed this petition. That the affiant stated his or her own qualification, that he or she had solicited the signatures upon that Section, that all of the signatures were made in his or her presence, and that to the best of his or her own information and belief, each signature to that section was the genuine signature of the person whose name it purports to be. That the Registrar of Voters of the County of Orange has certified the results attached hereto as Exhibit A and incorporated by reference the signature verification of the following facts regarding this petition: 1. Recall sought Cecilia Iglesias as the named officer. 2. Holding the Office of Councilmember, Ward 6- 3. Total number of signatures required by law 10,865 4. Total number of signatures on the petition: 16,415 5. Total number of valid signatures on the petition: 10,870 6. Number of signatures which were disqualified 4,812 Based on this examination and in accordance with Elections Code Sections 11222, 11224, 11227 the recall petition is hereby acknowledged as sufficient to be submitted to the voters as a special election not less than 88, nor more than 125, days after the issuance of the order. IN WITNESS WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the official seal of the City of Santa Ana this 12" day of February, 2020. Daisy Gomez Clerk of the Council City of Santa Ana #267230 Resolution No. 2020-011 Page 7 of 7