Bosley Safe from Recall
The effort failed. According to the Board of Elections, there were insufficent signatures. 1,466 were needed. Only 778 were good as of July 10.
The press release from the BOE:
For Immediate Release: Contact: Scott Leiendecker
July 10, 2006 Work 314.589.6211
CITY ELECTION BOARD CERTIFIES RESULTS OF PETITION
TO RECALL 3rd WARD ALDERMAN FREEMAN BOSLEY, SR.
(ST. LOUIS, MO) The Board of Election Commissioners for the City of St. Louis today certified the results of a petition filed on June 30, 2006 to recall Freeman Bosley, Sr. as the Alderman of the 3rd Ward. The petition contained 1,850 signatures, 1,117 of which were initially accepted as valid signatures of registered voters in the 3rd Ward. However, 339 of those signatures were subsequently withdrawn. As a result, only 778 of the original 1,850 signatures were accepted for purposes of the petition. The requirement for the petition to be sufficient was 1,466 signatures.
Pursuant to the City Charter, the proponents of the recall now have 20 calendar days to submit to the Board supplemental signature pages confirming to the requirements of the original petition filed with the Board on June 30. Within 10 days after the filing of any such supplemental signature pages, the Board will certify as to the sufficiency of the recall petition as supplemented.
SIGNATURES REQUIRED TO PASS PETITION: 1,466
TOTAL SIGNATURES SUBMITTED TO AND CHECKED BY BOARD: 1,850
Accepted Signatures: 1,117
Rejected Signatures: 733
Breakdown of rejected signatures:
Duplicates: 139 (Signed petition twice).
Not Registered: 343 (Some cases of registrations being received in office after the date the petition was signed).
Wrong Address: 200 (Signed the petition however resides in a different ward).
Wrong Signature: 51 (Determined by staff that the signatures did not match the signature we have on file).
TOTAL SIGNATURES WITHDRAWN AFTER SUBMISSION: 339
TOTAL VALID SIGNATURES REMAINING AS OF JULY 10, 2006: 778
51 "wrong signatures" is worrisome. Is history repeating itself?
Posted by travis reems on Mon., Jul 10, 2006 at 5:06 PM"Wrong signature" is obviously the most subjective of these categories. It is also the smallest category and would make relatively little difference in whether the petition qualifies.
It would be interesting to know how the board makes that determination. I would also be interested in knowing if my own signature today looks exactly like my signature did when I first registered to vote 10 years ago.
Posted by Tim on Mon., Jul 10, 2006 at 5:22 PMWell, this is a major step in the right direction! Not one dead person or animal!!! Tim, I would be willing to bet that your signature has not changed very much in 10 years.
It will be interesting to see if the "Brown shirts" find fraud in the "51."
Posted by TimR on Mon., Jul 10, 2006 at 8:24 PMclarification: "Brown shirts" was a reference to an earlier post about anytime an ethical point or fact check is brought up.
Posted by TimR on Mon., Jul 10, 2006 at 8:27 PM
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