Where the United States was once considered a paragon of free and fair elections, now it seems more dubious procedures are calling into question the results of another referendum, this time concerning the effort to recall Los Angeles County District Attorney George Gascon.

Gascon, who has made it clear he doesn’t understand the concept of crime and punishment, faced his second recall after a 2021 effort failed just weeks into his tenure. In order to put the newest effort on the ballot in November, 566,857 signatured were needed.

The county received more than enough at 715,000+, but a whopping 30 percent of those signatures were rejected, resulting in the acceptance of only 520,050. So, the effort to unseat the soft-on-crime DA has failed yet again, much to the peril of the citizens of LA, but at least the criminals in the City of Angels can rest easy tonight.

This after any question regarding signature matching (among other issues) in the 2020 presidential election would get one (namely, POTUS Donald Trump) banned from Twitter for spreading misinformation. In fact, the state of Pennsylvania said at the time that signatures on a mail-in ballot DO NOT have to match those on file on the voter’s registration form. While that is obviously a different state with different rules, just look at how far we’ve come …