A bid to recall Doug Ducey has come up short.
Adam Halleck, chairman of the group dubbed Accountable Arizona, told Capitol Media Services on Tuesday that circulators have collected only about 150,000 signatures in the effort that began in September. That is far short of the 594,111 valid signatures needed on petitions by Jan. 16 to force a special election.
Halleck said the campaign was in some ways a victim of the very thing that triggered the recall: Ducey's handling of the COVID-19 pandemic.
He said people were fearful about risking infection to go out to the places where petitions were available for signing. And Halleck said more aggressive approaches to get names on petitions made no sense.