2023-054 - Accepting the Certificates to Verification of Signature on Petition and Certifcate of Sufficiency for Petition to Recall Councilmember Jessie Lopez

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10111:7ti ? CERTIFICATE OF SUFFICIENCY OF RECALL PETITION I, Jennifer L. Hall, City Clerk for the City of Santa Ana, County of Orange, State of California, do hereby certify: That proponents submitted to my office on June 12, 2023 a petition to recall Jessie Lopez holding the office of Councilmember, Ward 3 in the City of Santa Ana, California. The petition was accepted for filing and delivered to the Orange County Registrar of Voters on June 13, 2023 to verify the signatures. That said petition consisted of 1,098 sections, and that each section contained signatures purporting to be 6,582 signatures of qualified electors of the City of Santa Ana, California. The petition is considered sufficient to qualify if signed by at least 20% of the 26,370 registered voters in Ward 3 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 dates between which the purported qualified 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 1 and incorporated by reference the signature verification of the following facts regarding this petition: 1. Recall sought Jessie Lopez as the named officer. 2. Holding the Office of Councilmember, Ward 3. 3. Total number of signatures required by law: 5,274 4. Total number of signatures on the petition: 6,617 5. Total number of valid signatures on the petition: 5,284 6. Number of signatures which were disqualified: 1,333 Based on this examination and in accordance with Elections Code Sections 11222, 11224, and 11227, the recall petition is hereby acknowledged as sufficient to be submitted to the voters at 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 of Santa Ana this 17'h day of July, 2023.