I spoke to OC Registrar of Voters Neal Kelley a few minutes ago and learned the petition drive to force a special election to fill the vacancy on the Anaheim Union High School District Board of Trustees has qualified.
Neal said his office finished verifying the signatures yesterday and turned them over to the OC Department of Education for certification. Special election proponents easily amassed the approximately 2,600 signatures necessary to force the special election.
Hats-off to the special election petition campaign. For a spontaneous grass-roots effort, they ran a very professional campaign, targeting registered voters in a door-to-door campaign rather than simply manning tables in front of supermarkets. As a result, they achieved a high validity rate: Registrar Neal Kelley estimates approximately 78% of the signatures counted were valid.
Next is the court rendezvous on Sept. 19, when the judge will decide whether to actually call the special election.
OC Superintendent Bill Habermehl still has 7 days to stop the madness and stop opposing a special election.
UPDATE (5:21 p.m.): Here's some more exact numbers from the ROV:
Valid Signatures: 2,272 77.6%
Invalid Signatures: 655 22.4%
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