May 7, 2010

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Cincinnati NAACP

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The Cincinnati NAACP submitted petitions to the Hamilton County Board of Elections to Recall any Mayor for the City of Cincinnati.  The Cincinnati NAACP is asking registered voters in the City of Cincinnati to go to the Cincinnati NAACP office at (4439 Reading Road) to sign the petition. The Cincinnati NAACP will need to collect 7500 good signatures to place the issue on the November 2010 ballot. However, if citizens adopt the recall provision for the Mayor the threshold to place the issue before voters is 15%. The Cincinnati NAACP wanted to be conservative with the threshold to stress the importance of the process of Recall. This means citizens would need 11,000 signatures to place the issue before voters. However, the validity rate in Cincinnati is 50%. Total signatures needed to collect would be 22,000 to hit the threshold and place the Recall of the Mayor before citizens.  "Citizens in Cincinnati need a check and balance to the power of the directly elected Mayor," Christopher Smitherman President of the Cincinnati NAACP says.

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The Cincinnati NAACP and political partners have placed five issues on the ballot over the past three elections cycles. "The Cincinnati NAACP feels strongly about our right to vote and petition our government as Americans," Smitherman says. The Cincinnati NAACP members and friends are needed to sign the Recall Petition which is located at 4439 Reading Road.

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