In today’s edition of “Republicans trying to change the rules of a democratic process because they didn’t like the outcome” is Louisiana state Representative Paul Hollis’s new bill H212 which would lower the number of signatures required for a recall election after some bullshit astroturf campaign to remove New Orleans Mayor Latoya Cantrell failed miserably, WDSU reports.
Louisiana recall petitions currently require a 20 percent of registered voters in a jurisdiction to sign on before it can be effected. Hollis seeks to change that to 20 percent of how many voters actually cast ballots in that official’s last election, claiming the reason the Cantrell recall failed was because too many people had died or moved away before the voter rolls were purged.
The recall failed last month when the canvassers only roped in about 27,000 votes, well short of the roughly 45,000 needed, but would have succeeded if the requirement had been 20 percent of the total votes in the 2021 election. Interesting how Louisiana MAGA assholes want to lower the threshold for recall petition drives while the GOP in Missouri and Ohio want to make them higher for ballot measures, like there’s too much democracy for them in some places but not enough in others.