Got a real barnburner in New Orleans, with Mayor LaToya Cantrell filing a lawsuit over the Secretary of State's decision not actually remove anyone from the rolls, but will (phantom-runner style) strike 25000 names just for the purpose of the recall, thereby lowering the number of signatures needed by 5000. Cantrell has also filed over the Judge's signing the recall petition herself (though that seems less like to succeed).
Note by law the Secretary of State needed to set the number in August. Here's the Secretary of State blaming the Governor on what is a national issue over complaints about voter rolls (and its use in voter suppression efforts).
Additionally, the petitioners have finally turned over signatures to the newspapers -- and they look like they are nowhere close to the number of signatures (32,000 -- need either 49k+ or 44+ depending on the SoS's decision). However, another plot twist came about as they have 7000 sheets that they didn't turn over (they handed over 10,000). Here's a lawyer pointing out that the judges may just wait to let the registrar decide that the petitioners don't have the signatures. So what does that mean? New Orleans living up to its billing.
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