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Scott Fayette recall, Los Alamitos Unified School District, California (2022)
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An effort to recall Scott Fayette from his position as the Trustee Area 4 representative on the Los Alamitos Unified School District Board of Education in California did not go to a vote in 2022. Recall supporters needed 1,846 signatures to get the recall on the ballot. The Orange County Registrar of Voters found 1,738 signatures on the petitions to be valid, which was not enough to put the recall on the ballot.[1]
The recall effort began in March 2022.[2] Recall supporters submitted 2, 129 signatures to the Orange County Registrar of Voters on July 18, 2022.[1][3] The grounds for recall listed on the recall supporters' website included the district's mask requirement policy and sex education curriculum.[4]
Fayette was automatically elected to the board in 2020 after he was the only candidate to file for the seat.[5]
Fayette was also named in a recall petition in 2021. Recall supporters did not submit signatures by the deadline. Click here to read more about that effort.
To read about other recall efforts related to the coronavirus and government responses to the pandemic, click here.
Recall supporters
Recall supporters listed the following reasons for recall on their website:[4]
| “ | Scott Fayette was never elected by District 4 voters. Instead, using insider information and a technicality, Fayette slid his way into an unopposed seat during the heart of the 2020 pandemic.
Fayette does not represent our values in District 4, and has repeatedly broken his Oath of Office to uphold the U.S. Constitution. Fayette disregards and disrespects parents as evidenced by his voting record and is guilty of:
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Recall opponents
Ballotpedia did not identify a response to the recall effort.
Path to the ballot
- See also: Laws governing recall in California
Recall supporters began the recall effort on March 17, 2022, when Fayette was first notified with a notice of intent to recall.[2] To get the recall on the ballot, supporters had to submit 1,846 signatures to the Orange County Registrar of Voters by July 18, 2022. The number of signatures was equal to 25% of registered voters in Trustee Area 4.[1][5] They submitted signatures on the deadline.[3]
Ballotpedia covered 35 coronavirus-related recall efforts against 94 officials in 2022, accounting for 13% of recalls that year. This is a decrease from both 2020 and 2021. COVID-related recalls accounted for 37% of all recall efforts in both 2020 and 2021. In 2020, there were 87 COVID-related recalls against 89 officials, and in 2021, there were 131 against 214 officials.
The chart below compares coronavirus-related recalls to recalls for all other reasons in 2020, 2021, and 2022.
2022 recall efforts
- See also: School board recalls
Ballotpedia tracked 54 school board recall efforts against 123 board members in 2022. Recall elections against school board members were held on January 11, 2022, January 18, 2022, January 24, 2022, February 15, 2022, March 29, 2022, April 4, 2022, and November 8, 2022. The school board recall success rate was 7.3%.
The chart below details the status of 2022 recall efforts by individual school board member.
See also
- Los Alamitos Unified School District, California
- Los Alamitos Unified School District recall, California (2021)
- Recall campaigns in California
- Political recall efforts, 2022
- School board recalls
- States that allow school board recalls
External links
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- Los Alamitos Unified School District
- Orange County Registrar of Voters
- Recall Scott Fayette website
Footnotes
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 Abbey Smith, “Email communication with the Orange County Registrar of Voters," September 6, 2022
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 Patch, "Los Alamitos Unified Board Trustee Target Of Recall Effort: Report," April 5, 2022
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 Abbey Smith, “Email communication with the Orange County Registrar of Voters," July 20, 2022
- ↑ 4.0 4.1 Recall Scott Fayette Los Alamitos School Board District 4, "Grounds for Recall," accessed July 20, 2022
- ↑ 5.0 5.1 Sun Newspapers, "Recall against LAUSD School Board member faces deadline," July 13, 2022
- ↑ Note: This text is quoted verbatim from the original source. Any inconsistencies are attributable to the original source.
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