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Originally Posted by GoldenBoot
I may be missing something, but "four" months? Also, each district should have close to 100,000 people in it. Ten districts and a city population of almost 1,000,000?!?
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It's part of the Texas Election Code (Sec. 277-022), part (e), which allows a signature to only be good for four months from when you submit the recall itself. Granted it's a little weird, but it's probably necessary for general petitions that could simmer on old signatures for years.
http://austintexas.gov/page/recall-petitions
You only need the signatures from
active voters, not everyone in Austin is a registered, active voter. That's where you see the schism between your ideal population and the 61,500 we actually saw.
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