Dozens of recall campaigns are underway across the U.S. ahead of next week's election.
Brian Steele, Mayor of Nixa, is seen next to one of his campaign signs in Nixa, Missouri on Oct. 21,2021. Steele is facing a recall election on November 2 as a local conservative group has taken issue with some of the cities COVID-19 measures taken in the past year.
Nationally, more than 500 attempts to recall elected officials have happened this year, up from about 400 in a typical year, said Joshua Spivak, a senior fellow at the Hugh L. Carey Institute at Wagner College. He said most of the increase stems from a spike in school board recalls, with about 200 this year, up from 70 in a normal year.
Steele, who designs computer systems when he isn't leading the city of 21,000 people in the Springfield, Missouri, area, found himself at the center of controversy as COVID-19 case numbers began to spike a year ago. He and other recall proponents got the issue on the ballot with 73 valid signatures — six more than the minimum.
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