The last general election in 2000 dealt with Senator Kyl’s U.S. Senate seat. There were about 1.4 million votes cast all of the candidates, which translates to about 350,000 signatures required for a recall. We believe that the “preceding general election” language refers to John McCain’s office as he is the officer we are recalling. In his election held in 1998 about 975,000 people voted for the office of U.S. Senator in Arizona. That would mean about 244,000 signatures are required on the Recall John McCain petition. Title 19 of the A.R.S. contradicts Article 8 of the Arizona Constitution in how the number of petitioners is derived in this case. The AZ Constitution is the authority. A request from the Arizona Attorney General for interpretation on this issue is pending.
There was an election since then in which 2,000,000 people voted for Senator. So, I guess you can double the amount of signatures needed now to about 500,000.
There may be an effort afoot to renew the Recall John McCain effort. Stay tuned.