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Alan Lee recall, Big Bear Lake, California (2022)
| Alan Lee recall |
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| Officeholders |
| Recall status |
| Recall election date |
| November 8, 2022 |
| Signature requirement |
| See also |
| Recall overview Political recall efforts, 2022 Recalls in California California recall laws City council recalls Recall reports |
A recall election for District 1 City Councilman Alan Lee was held on November 8, 2022, in Big Bear Lake, California. Voters approved the recall by a margin of 74% to 26%.[1]
The filing deadline to run in the election passed on August 12, 2022.[2][3]
Organizers alleged that Lee had violated campaign spending and public records laws, and had created a hostile work environment for the city manager. Lee did not file a formal response to the recall campaign.[2]
Recall vote
Recall question
Alan Lee recall, 2022
Alan Lee lost the Big Bear Lake City Council District 1 recall election on November 8, 2022.
Recall Vote |
% |
Votes |
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| ✖ | Yes |
73.8
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321 | ||
No |
26.2
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114 | |||
Total Votes |
435 | ||||
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Replacement question
Voters were asked to select a candidate to replace Lee if the recall was successful.
General election
Special general election for Big Bear Lake City Council District 1
Kendi Segovia defeated Jim Eakin in the special general election for Big Bear Lake City Council District 1 on November 8, 2022.
Candidate | % | Votes | ||
| ✔ | Kendi Segovia (Nonpartisan) | 62.1 | 231 | |
| Jim Eakin (Nonpartisan) | 37.9 | 141 | ||
| Total votes: 372 | |||
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Recall supporters
Supporters of the recall offered the following grounds for the recall campaign on their website:[4]
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Grounds For Lee’s Recall
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Recall opponents
Lee did not file an official response to the recall campaign with the Big Bear Lake city clerk within the seven-day period allowed by law.[6]
Path to the ballot
- See also: Laws governing recall in California
Recalls of local officials in California start with notices of intent to targeted officials. Each notice requires signatures from city residents, the name of the targeted official, and reasoning for the recall that cannot exceed 200 words. A copy of the notice is delivered to the city clerk, who publishes the notice in at least three public places. Targeted officials have seven days following receipt of their notices to issue statements of defense. A recall petition can be circulated against each targeted official once the notice of intent is published.
Recall organizers initiated the recall process by serving Lee with a notice of intent to circulate a recall petition on April 4, 2022.[2][7]
To force a special recall election to be scheduled, organizers needed to collect around 131 signatures, which represented 30% of registered voters from District 1. The San Bernardino County Registrar of Voters determined that organizers had submitted 229 valid signatures by the June 1 deadline. The election was scheduled for November 8, 2022.[2][3][8]
See also
External links
Footnotes
- ↑ Big Bear Grizzly, "Local election results are in with 100 percent of precincts reporting," November 22, 2022
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 2.3 Big Bear Grizzly, "Big Bear Lake council member faces recall effort," April 6, 2022
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 City of Big Bear Lake, "Notice of Election," accessed July 26, 2022
- ↑ Recall Lee, "Grounds For Lee’s Recall," accessed April 25, 2022
- ↑ Note: This text is quoted verbatim from the original source. Any inconsistencies are attributable to the original source.
- ↑ Big Bear Grizzly, "No response from Lee on recall effort," April 20, 2022
- ↑ Big Bear Lake Grizzly, "Recall and campaign debt ahead for Lee," June 15, 2022
- ↑ City of Big Bear Lake, "CITY COUNCIL REGULAR MEETING AGENDA," July 18, 2022 (page 48)
