'This is absolutely not a threat. This is a promise': Three women spearhead recall of South Jersey school board member

Kerri Tillett handily won her election to the Northern Burlington County Regional school board in 2020. Now she's fighting to keep her seat after a petition by three residents seeks to oust her.

In the sprawling New Jersey rural district just south of Trenton, Tillett has been targeted in what petitioners say could be the first of several efforts against the nine-member school board.

The petition filed in January by residents Kelly Stobie, Cynthia O'Malley, and Melissa Bearden provided no reason for the recall — and is not required to do so under a 1995 state law. The three have 160 days to gather signatures from 25% of the town's 7,662 registered voters, which legal observers say will likely be an uphill battle.