...huh, I didn't even think about that. Those who are wolves can probably just kill someone before they can recruit, and then the recruitment won't resolve. If it's an action and not vote based, I have no idea. On the other hand, villager actions like scrying and baning are kind of timing neutral at least, so at least we aren't PUNISHED for going early/later. Unless baning doesn't work if someone issues a kill command before hand, which would be... mean.
Actually that might work in your favor - if you have no underlings, they can't recruit you through osmosis. Though they could have just recruited you directly, but that would have happened no matter what in that case.