Answer: When it's a regular municipal election.
"'We already have a process in place to recall people every year over a loss of faith,' he [Troy Ripley]said. 'It happens every three years.'" Advertiser Democrat 7-30-09 p.5A
When a term of office for an elected official is up, he or she may decide whether to run again, and if the choice is to run, may or may not be re-elected. It would be a straight forward decision of all the registered voters at election time, right?
But what if the behavior and decisions of an elected official give voters second thoughts before the official's term of office is up? Once a recall ordinance is in place in a town (30-A, M.R.S.A., Section 2602), a petition can be filed, a special "recall election" set up, and, once again, just as in the previous paragraph, it is a straight forward decision of all the registered voters, "yes" or "no."
