Florida: Attempt to throwout recall effort on technicality

Mon, Nov 8 2010 — Source: CBS 4

Miami-Dade Mayor Carlos Alvarez is suing over the campaign to remove him from office. Alvarez, furious over the effort financed by billionaire Norman Braman, has moved to have the more than 112 thousand recall petition signatures wiped out of existence citing a legal technicality. He claims one signature - the signature of the person who approved the petition form - is invalid. He said a letter approving the petition was signed by a deputy courts clerk, not the clerk himself.

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