The council strips the city clerk of her duties when she tries to certify petitions. And it refuses to set an election date. A judge gets the case today.
A battle over the integrity of the election process is coming to a head this week in Lynwood, where the City Council has defied the Los Angeles County registrar-recorder and refused to set a date for a recall election targeting four of its members. The registrar-recorder's office concluded in June that there were enough signatures on recall petitions to force a special election for the four officials, two of whom were recently indicted on public corruption charges. But when Lynwood's elected city clerk tried to certify the recall petition, the City Council voted to strip her of all election duties, appointing its own election official to take up the matter. The city clerk gave the petitions to the Sheriff's Department, which has rejected the City Council request to review the documents.
Click here to read article: By Hector Becerra, Times Staff WriterJuly 3, 2007
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