Recall signatures turned in:
Posted: Monday, February 22, 2010, 8:37 am
By Christina Rohn News-Review Staff Writer
Tribal elders await validation of recall petition to have an election to oust current chairman and vice chairman
For the past four months, several members of the have been circulating a petition to recall their recently elected tribal chairman and vice chairman.
At 6 p.m., on Friday, Feb. 19, the group turned in its signatures to the tribal election committee — 171 each for both chairman Ken Harrington and vice chairman Dexter McNamara — which is the required 20 percent of 856 voters who voted in the last general election.
The election committee is now tasked to either certify the validity of the recall petition and its signatures, or return it to the submitting party with a written explanation of the deficit within 10 business days.
If the petition is deemed valid, the election board is required to schedule a recall election within 90 days.
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