California: mayor files VRA suit over recall petitions
AP reports: ROSEMEAD, Calif. - Mayor Jay Imperial filed suit against the city claiming recall petitions seeking his ouster should have been in multiple languages.
The successful petition drive triggered a Feb. 7 recall vote. The petitions were in English.
"Today I requested that the federal court review the petitions used in the Rosemead recall effort to determine their compliance with the federal Voting Rights Act," Imperial wrote in a statement presented Tuesday night to the City Council.
Imperial said non-English speakers in the city were duped into signing the petitions. -- AP Wire | 12/28/2005 | News briefs from Southern California