Secretary of State Closes the Landry Recall at Zero Signatures and Sends the Pen Home Capped

Zero signatures, which left the pen capped.

The Secretary of State closed the petition to recall Gov. Jeff Landry after the November 2 deadline, with no signatures turned in and the ballpoint pen still wearing its cap. The petition was filed on May 4. It needed handwritten names from 20 percent of Louisiana's voters, about 500,000 people, before the state would even call an election. The organizer said the pages were not submitted. The governor said no parish registrar had received a sheet. The clipboard looked the way it did in the spring. "I had a pen in the cup holder the whole time and nobody flagged me down," said retiree Paul Boudreaux, clicking it once over a blank page. "Half a million names, and the ink is still at the top. My grocery list did more writing before lunch." He capped the pen and took it home in the cup holder, next to a napkin from lunch. On Friday it is scheduled for four items, starting with a meat pie, which puts it four lines ahead of the recall.

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