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Dear Mr. Wiggins:

You have requested of this Office to advise whether the recall petition and supporting documents directed toward Michael Melder, Alderman, Town of Elizabeth, Parish of Allen, meets the statutory requirements for a recall petition as set forth in R.S. 18:1300.1 etseq.

First, R.S. 18:1300.2(B) states:

B. All signatures on recall petitions shall be handwritten. This petition shall be signed by a number of the electors of the voting area as will in number equal not less than thirty-three and one-third percent of the number of the total electors of the voting area wherein and for…