Organizers submitted more than 1,000 signatures to El Paso City Hall on Friday, August 14, seeking to recall Rep. Cynthia Boyar Trejo, KVIA reported [1]. The signatures had been gathered since June 17 [1].
The recall stems from a single vote. Trejo is targeted over her vote against canceling a 380 agreement with Meta for a Northeast data center, according to the report [1]. Organizer Josh Dagda tied the effort to constituents who felt shut out: "They did not feel heard, so we wanted to do something about it," he said [1].
The petition now enters a validation process, and that is where the real contest lies. The city clerk says 4,233 valid signatures are required, while the petitioners argue the threshold should be 786, KVIA reported [1]. The gap between those two numbers, more than five to one, is what determines whether the more than 1,000 signatures collected are close to sufficient or well short.
The clerk controls the timeline. Under the process KVIA described, the clerk has up to 10 calendar days to validate the submission [1]. If the petition is found insufficient, it enters a 10-day amendment period, followed by a 10-day second review [1]. Only after signatures are validated does the matter advance.
What happens next is set out in the recall procedure. If the signatures are valid, the petition goes to the City Council, and, per the statement KVIA cited, if the representative does not resign, the council must order a recall election [1]. That sequence means the immediate question is not political will but arithmetic: which threshold applies, and whether the submitted signatures clear it once the clerk finishes counting.
