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First, the elected official - John Lee - must have held their current term of office for at least three months, so February 2021.
At that point, a prospective recall may begin with the publishing of a Notice of Intention and Statement of Reasons.
The Statement contains factual statements about the reasons for recall - e.g. "John Lee was present on a trip during which political corruption was taking place and hid the fact that his actions were the subject of FBI questioning from voters."
The Notice is published and the Statement is served to, e.g., John Lee as well as the City Clerk. After that point, the official can respond - e.g. "I, John Lee, cooperated fully with the FBI and I was unaware of the corrupt actions of my boss, with whom I am very close."
Then signature collecting begins. The recall process requires 15% of the registered voters eligible to vote for an official to sign the recall petition. In CD12, for example, this would be 15% of 172,407 voters, or 25,900 signatures.
The petition contains both the statement that, e.g., John Lee misled the public and the rebuttal that, e.g., idk, John Lee was shocked that gambling was taking place in that casino. Signatures must be gathered within 120 days, or, in John Lee's case, by June 2021.
Upon successful filing of the petition with sufficient valid signatures, the City council has 20 days to acknowledge the recall and must schedule an election btwn 88 and 145 days from the date of action.
Then the voters go to the ballots and decide if, for example, they think that John Lee has achieved his office through means of dishonesty that his conduct has otherwise shown a lack of integrity.
I have lost the thread! Anyway this was in answer to this Q: https://twitter.com/calexity/status/1244770245186740225?s=20
