Landon Johnston unloads some of the boxes with petitions to recall Mayor Jyoti Gondek at the Elections Office on April 4. Darren Makowichuk/Postmedia

Braid: On a dubious technicality, city hall says every ballot against Gondek is invalid

The recall vote against Calgary Mayor Gondek not only fails, every ballot is ruled invalid. The typically callous response of city hall

by · Calgary Herald

Drama turned to farce when the petition to recall Mayor Jyoti Gondek finally hit city hall.

That’s the way of our civic government. It has a thousand ways to bury a clear intention in verbal sludge.