Seattle City Councilmember Kshama Sawant’s team announced a new strategy to defeat a recall campaign opposing her.
Sawant’s campaign wants to collect enough signatures to force the recall vote on the November ballot.
The recall campaign is targeting a special election in February.
Sawant called what the recall campaign is doing is voter suppression.
Sawant said fewer people vote in special elections, and her side would have a better chance of defeating the recall campaign if the actual vote was on the November ballot.
“They want to win a special election because they don’t want ordinary working people to vote. They know Black people, working-class people, young people typically vote in dramatically lower numbers in special elections,” Sawant said in part during a rally she recently held.
Those with the recall Sawant campaign said they have until October 19, to collect enough signatures for a special election, and said they are working tirelessly to get on the November ballot in order to give everyone in District 3 a chance to vote.
So far, the recall campaign has collected more than 9,000 signatures in seven weeks, but needs to collect 10,739 signatures by Aug. 1 in order to get on the November ballot.