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Dear Mr. Casey:

This letter is written in response to your request as to whether the Governor should call a recall election for the Honorable Buford Fontenot, School Board Member District One (1), Evangeline Parish.

The attached certificate from Tedmund P. Soileau, Registrar of Voters for Evangeline Parish states:

* 1,693 persons constituted the total number of qualified electors of School Board District One (1).

* 650 of the persons whose signatures and addresses appeared on said petition were qualified electors of School Board District One (1).

According to R.S. 18:1300.2:

"This petition shall be signed by a number of the electors of the voting area as will in number equal not less than thirty-three and one-third percent of the number of the total electors of the voting area wherein and for which a recall election is petitioned."

The requirements of R.S. 18:1300.2 were met since the petition seeking the recall of Honorable Buford Fontenot, School Board Member, District One (1) of Evangeline Parish contained the signatures of thirty-eight and one-third percent of the number of the total electors of the voting area for which the recall election was petitioned.

Sincerely, WILLIAM J. GUSTE, JR. Attorney General

BY: ANGIE ROGERS LaPLACE Assistant Attorney General