Ballotpedia, a nonpartisan group that tracks cases, covered 351 recall efforts nationally against 537 officials in 2021. Of those, 25 officials were removed after an election.
Others either resigned, were put on a ballot but defeated the recall efforts, never were placed on a ballot, or still face those efforts.
Petitions nationally spiked in 2021, with school board members getting the most recalls, Ballotpedia said. Most revolve around how school officials are handling issues related to the pandemic, a topic that’s been increasingly divisive in the last two years. The mask policy bubbled up at Tuesday’s Northern Burlington Regional meeting when some parents demanded that board member Angela Reading, the only board member not wearing a mask, put one on, and she complied.
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