Kelowna-Lake Country-Coldstream MLA Tara Armstrong is facing a recall campaign, but one of its organizers said even if it doesn’t oust her from office it will still be a success.

MLA Dallas Brodie, who started the party OneBC with Armstrong, was the target of a recent failed recall campaign.

Activist Wilbur Turner, one of the organizer’s of the campaign to oust Armstrong from office, said going through all of the effort of a recall is worth it because it would educate voters even if unsuccessful.

Turner said the organizer of the Brodie recall campaign told him a lot of people weren’t even aware of who she was.

“When they’re knocking on doors and talking to people that don’t even know who (Brodie) is, the likelihood of getting them to sign something is probably minimized,” Turner told iNFOnews.ca.

B.C. has the Recall and Initiative Act and it’s one of the only pieces of legislation in the country that allows voters to recall an elected official, but there has never been a successful recall campaign since the act came into effect in 1995.

Under the act, organizers of a recall petition have 60 days to collect signatures from 40 per cent of voters who were eligible to vote in the election when the MLA was elected. A successful petition forces the politician out of office.

That means the Armstrong recall campaign needs to collect more than 18,000 signatures in person in just two months.

The Brodie campaign had 118 registered canvassers collecting signatures and it managed to get 3,663 out of the 15,232 needed to oust Brodie and force a byelection.

Turner said one of the biggest hurdles is informing people about Armstrong’s long list of controversies ahead of filing the petition at the end of August which starts the 60 day countdown clock.

“It would probably be a similar situation here, to be honest. A lot of people just don’t have a lot of involvement in politics and they vote based on party versus person,” he said. “That just speaks to having a broader educational advertising campaign around it as well to make sure people actually know what this is about and who Tara Armstrong is.”

The Brodie recall campaign is shifting its focus to make sure everyone knows who she is ahead of the next provincial election, and Turner said Armstrong’s recall campaign is going to do the same thing even if they don’t get enough signatures.

“It has created more awareness and brought it into the public eye more. And I think exactly the same thing is happening here,” Turner said.

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