Request for petition to recall Sheriff Daryl Anderson rejected
Lincoln County Clerk and Recorders office rejects request citing errors on both the petition and affidavit
by Duane Williams, KLCB 1230 AM Libby News Radio
June 25, 2009
The Lincoln County Clerk and Recorders office had until Tuesday to return a determination regarding a petition to recall Lincoln County Sheriff Daryl Anderson.
A group of about 25 Eureka citizens, The Lincoln County Recall Committee, filed a request to authorize a petition to circulate among Lincoln County voters and require 2,000 signatures of those registered to vote in the county's last general election to put a formal recall on a countywide ballot.
The petition alleges Anderson "failed to adequately investigate" rape cases involving the use of "date-rape drugs", animal cruelty, among other allegations.
The Lincoln County Election Administrator and Clerk and Recorder, Tammy Lauer rejected the request for the petition. In a letter to Ginny Emerson, Lauer said that after review of the petition and affidavit she found errors on both, thus rejecting the form of the petition.
Lauer said the law states the petition must be filed in the form in which it will be circulated. Neither the emailed copy nor the faxed copy is true to what will be circulated.
A statement of the basis for knowledge of the facts claimed to constitute incompetence. This must be from the petitioner's knowledge of the facts, apparently not the case, but based on "third-hand" accounts. And "We the people of Lincoln County" must be removed as the petitioner, in this case the Lincoln County Recall Committee, cannot speak for all the people of Lincoln County, Lauer said.
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Story by Duane Williams, KLCB 1230 AM Libby News Radio, www.todaysbestcountryonline.com.
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