§ 11227 Recall Petition Certification

• •The elections official must decide if the petition signatures are enough.
• •If they are, the official must give a certificate to the governing body at its next regular meeting.
• •The certificate must list the officer’s name, their job title, the required number of signatures, total signatures collected, valid signatures, and disqualified signatures.

A group of voters gathers signatures to try to recall the town mayor. After the elections official checks the signatures, they bring a report to the next city council meeting.

The official looks at all the signatures, counts how many are real and how many are not, and then hands the council a paper that says who is being recalled, what job they hold, how many signatures the law says are needed, how many were collected, how many are good, and how many were thrown out.