“We have 76 sheets we’re delivering today and it looks good of having what we need,” said recall organizer James Cusick.

FALL RIVER — The organizers of the effort to recall Mayor Jasiel Correia II dropped off another stack of petitions to the City Clerk Tuesday morning and they say they’ve reached the required 2,510 signatures of registered city voters that could set off a recall election.

“We have 76 sheets we’re delivering today and it looks good of having what we need,” said recall organizer James Cusick. “We’ll still be out the rest of the week collecting. We want to go way above. We know they’ll try and throw as many out as they can. We want to be safe.”

As of Tuesday morning the group estimated they have collected over 4,000 signatures.

The reaction of residents signing the recall petitions “have been great so far,” said Cusick.

“The mayor will be surprised,” said Cusick.

If the signatures are successfully certified it will be the second recall election in the city in four years when former Mayor Will Flanagan was recalled and was beat out by former Bristol County District Attorney Sam Sutter.

Correia defeated Sutter in 2015.

The process to recall Correia started on Oct. 25 soon after Correia was indicted by a federal grand jury then arrested and arraigned on Oct. 11 on 13 counts of wire and tax fraud related to his tech company SnoOwl, where he allegedly bilked investors out of more than $230,000.

He pleaded not guilty to all of the charges and has proclaimed his innocence publicly.

U.S. Attorney Andrew Lelling said the morning of Correia's arraigned that the investigation surrounding the mayor is on-going .

Petitioners have been out in force outside storefronts around the city and at polling places on Tuesday. By charter they have 20 days to get signatures from 5 percent of the city’s registered voters with a deadline of Nov. 19.

The first batch of petitions were delivered on Friday and sent up to the Board of Elections office to start the process of certifying the signatures.

Board of Elections Chairwoman Kelly Sousa-Young said she and her small staff have been busy certifying the ballots of the recent mid-term election and has a deadline of Nov. 21 with the state.

After the elections staff has completed the elections certification, they can begin to concentrate on the recall signatures, said Sousa-Young. She predicted that the process would be complete before the Christmas holiday.

The recall petitioners have had some of their own challenges in the process with weather and police being called on two occasions.

Most recently on Saturday, Cusick said Correia supporters were at the site at Shaw’s market on North Main Street when they were asked to leave the property by a manager.

“He made them stand on North Main Street. They were interfering which is against the law to interfere with people gathering petitions, but it didn’t faze them,” said Cusick.

According to the state constitution, the recallers have the right to gather signatures on store property.

If the petitions are certified, the board of elections sends the documents back to the city clerk who sends it down to the City Council.

According to the city charter, the council will then ask the mayor to step down. If he does not relinquish his elected position within five days, the council has 65 days to schedule a recall election.

Correia will have the opportunity in the recall election to run for his position as mayor.

Email Jo C. Goode at jgoode@heraldnews.com