Kimberly Ho and Carlos Manzo recall, Westminster, California (2021-2022)

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Westminster city council recall
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Officeholders
Kimberly Ho and Carlos Manzo
Recall status
Did not go to a vote
Signature requirement
20% of registered district voters
See also
Recall overview
Political recall efforts, 2022
Recalls in California
California recall laws
City council recalls
Recall reports

An effort to recall Councilmembers Kimberly Ho and Carlos Manzo did not qualify for the ballot in Westminster, California.[1]

Organizers submitted 2,381 valid signatures against Ho, which was short of the number needed to force a recall election to be held.[1] They later submitted 2,878 signatures against Manzo to the city clerk. The recall against Manzo also did not go forward, after only 1,907 of these signatures were verified.[2][3][4]

For information on the 2020 campaign to recall members of the Westminster City Council, please click here.

Recall supporters

According to the Orange County Register, organizers initiated the recall campaign after Ho and Manzo voted in June 2021 to postpone the construction of a war monument, commemorating the 1972 Battle of Quang Tri, at Freedom Park in Westminster.[5][6]

Path to the ballot

See also: Laws governing recall in California

Organizers needed to collect signatures from 20% of registered voters in each district, or 2,140 in District 2 and 2,660 in District 3.[5] They submitted 4,038 signed petitions against Kimberly Ho by the deadline of January 13, 2022.[4][1] The recall campaign ended after the county registrar of voters validated only 2,381 of those signatures, which fell short of the threshold needed to force a recall election to be held.[1]

The deadline to submit petitions against Carlos Manzo passed on February 15, 2022.[4] Organizers submitted 2,878 signatures against Manzo to the city clerk, which had until March 15, 2022, to validate them.[1] The recall campaign did not move foward after only 1,907 of the signatures were validated.[2]

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