LANSING (WKZO-AM) — The clock is ticking for organizers of a campaign to boot Gov. Rick Snyder from office over the way he handled the Flint water crisis.
They face a task that no one has ever accomplished before — collecting 790,000 signatures from registered voters in just 60 days.
New rules adopted by the legislature make recalling an elected official tougher. Ballot initiatives only need one-third of the signatures and campaigns have six months to gather them.
Those campaigns often fail.
The recall group began circulating petitions on Sunday, taking advantage of full churches over the Easter holiday.
A poll released last week shows that about 41 percent of residents want Snyder gone because of the water crisis. 50 percent of respondents told pollsters at EPIC-MRA he should stay on the job.
