The Orleans Parish Registrar of Voters says some of the signatures they received from the failed recall effort of New Orleans Mayor LaToya Cantrell were Disney names, but recall organizers say there were thousands of signatures not counted. Danielle Duplessis Hammond with the Registrar’s office read off some of the names
“Minnie Mouse, Mickey Mouse, Princess Tiana, Cinderella, Shrek, Goofy D, Doc Dwarf, Bashful, Happy Dwarf, Sleeping Beauty, Donald Duck, Prince Charming, Scooby Doo, and Barney Rubble.”
45-thousand signatures were needed to force the recall and only 27-thousand were certified. New Orleans Registrar of Voters Sandra Wilson stands by her counting…
“We’ve counted the records, we received the records, we verified the records, we certified the records, and we are quite sure that what we’ve done is proper and keeping with the law.
But recall organizers Eileen Carter and Belden Batiste say Wilson’s math doesn’t add up
“We handed in approximately 100,000 signatures. That’s what we handed in, and we have backup to prove it .We’ve got backup!”
But what about the Disney signatures? Carter says Wilson’s office was also not clear on when the signatures needed to be submitted so in the rush to turn them in, some false names were mixed in with valid signatures
“Residents made lots of jokes throughout this, so I could see maybe something like that in that last Monday thing when we were throwing everything in to make sure we got it in there because we thought we had ’til Wednesday but we only had ’til Monday, but other than that, like c’mon. Seriously?”
Carter says they are not going away and exploring all legal options.
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