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===New Jersey===
===New Jersey===
The Uniform Recall Election Law, which also implements explicit provisions in the [[New Jersey]] State Constitution (Article I, Section 2, Paragraph b), provides that any elected official in the State, and any Senator or Representative elected from New Jersey, may face a recall election after serving for one year since his last election. Any three citizens may form a recall committee, named according to this formula: "Committee to Recall [[John Doe]] from the Office of ____." The Committee files a Notice of Intent with the appropriate election official. That Notice must state the name of the official and the title of the office that he is to be recalled from. If the committee wants to call a special election, they must estimate the cost of holding such a special election (so that petition signers will know how much this exercise will likely cost the State); otherwise, the recall election will be held coincidentally with the next general election. The election official must then within three days either approve it as to form and content or else return it, with his objections, to the committee for correction.
Once such a notice is approved, the Committee has 160 days (or 320 days in the case of an attempt to recall the Governor or either [[United States Senate|Senator]]) to gather signatures from 25 percent of the voters registered as of the immediate previous general election. If the committee gathers the required number of signatures within the required time frame, the recall election takes place at the next opportunity, or on a specified date if a special election is desired.
Two separate questions are put to the voters in that event:
# Shall the official be recalled from his office? If a majority of voters vote "No," the official is retained. Otherwise, the voters next get to vote on the next question:
# Who shall serve out the unexpired term in place of the recalled official? Any person, including the recalled official himself, may stand for election to that unexpired term. The winner, no matter who it is, serves out the term until expiration.
====The Menendez Recall Case====
On September 25, 2009, activist RoseAnn Salanitri made history as the first citizen to form a committee to recall a member of the [[United States Senate]]. She and two other signatories filed a Notice of Intent, as per the Uniform Recall Elections Law and the relevant provision in the New Jersey Constitution, to recall [[Robert Menendez]] from his office.
On September 25, 2009, activist RoseAnn Salanitri made history as the first citizen to form a committee to recall a member of the [[United States Senate]]. She and two other signatories filed a Notice of Intent, as per the Uniform Recall Elections Law and the relevant provision in the New Jersey Constitution, to recall [[Robert Menendez]] from his office.