A Southwest D.C. advisory neighborhood commissioner facing a rare recall election will appeal the decision of the District’s elections board that sparked the impending vote, she said Monday.

Mary Williams, a Ward 6 commissioner, submitted to the Board of Elections and Ethics 18 affidavits from her constituents who said they were fooled into signing petitions calling for her ouster. She also contested dozens of petition signatures as invalid. But the board, acting on the recommendation of the registrar of voters, last week upheld the petitions, setting into motion a possible Nov. 7 recall election.