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● New Orleans, LA Mayor: The group seeking to recall New Orleans Mayor LaToya Cantrell reached an unusual settlement with Louisiana Secretary of State Kyle Ardoin on Wednesday that makes its task easier by lowering the number of signatures needed to put a recall on the ballot from about 50,000 to 45,000. The deadline for election officials to finish verifying the petitions that the NoLaToya campaign submitted last week is March 22, though the mayor's detractors have stubbornly refused to say how many they turned in.
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