Proposed legislation in California that would allow targets of future recall movements to identify and contact petition signers to potentially change their minds sparked lengthy debate in a recent State Senate committee meeting. Senate Bill 663 (SB 663) would provide data access to recall targets, allowing them to contact petition signers and correct any potential misleading information they might have received from signature gatherers. Sen. Josh Newman (D-Fullerton), who authored the legislation, said voters are often tricked into signing recall petitions and should be more easily able to withdraw their signatures if they feel they’ve been deceived. “It is a fundamental tenet of the American justice system that the accused should always have the right to face his or her accusers. This is what we’re endeavoring to do—nothing more, nothing less than that,” Newman said. But Orrin Heatlie, founder of the campaign to recall Gov. Gavin Newsom, told the Senate …
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