wrote:

Rob wrote:
On Mar 4, 6:12 am, Brian Lafferty wrote:
Petitions were mailed out yesterday.
How many are required? What percentage of the voting members need to
fill one out? Dose a recall petition drive need to be approved by the
delegates or the executive board? Who is paying for the petitions to
be printed,mailed,counted and independatly verified?



The petitions are going to 149 Delegates. The signatures of 2/3 of
them are needed to qualify the recall for a vote. (It is also possible
to do this with signatures of Voting Members, but that would take over
3000.) If the petition gets enough signatures the USCF has to hold a
recall vote, with a 2/3 majority and at least 1500 votes cast needed
to recall. Alarie and her cronies are paying for the petition drive
(couple of hundred bucks), but of course the USCF will have to pay for
the election if it qualifies. A similar attempt by Alarie last year to
recall the unspeakable Sloan failed to get enough signatures, so I
remain skeptical.

Many of hose approached in the Sloan recall noted that an election was
to be held that would basically coincide with a recall vote. Thus,
everyone simply waited for the normal election cycle. Time will tell as
to the effectiveness of the recall. I, for one, appreciate Donna's efforts.