New Orleans mayor easily defeats petition for recall

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Speaking with reporters at an event in Hammond, Louisiana Governor John Bel Edwards said the citizen-led campaign to recall Cantrell had not met the threshold needed to prompt a recall election. The petition was delivered Tuesday morning to state officials in Baton Rouge.

According to numbers provided by Edwards' office, while the recall petition that the activists delivered had 67,022 handwritten signatures, only 27,243 of them belonged to qualified electors. About 45,000 names were needed to force a referendum vote on New Orleans' first female mayor.

"I won't be calling an election," he told reporters. "The threshold was not satisfied."

now where oh where did all those other signatures come from, hmmn?

state data shows the recall effort was rife with errors. Of the supplemental signatures, local media reported, nearly 5,000 were duplicates, while nearly 900 came from voters outside of Orleans parish. An additional 26,000 signatures were rejected for reasons ranging from a lack of data necessary to verify they were legitimate to signatures that were obtained before or after the deadline.

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