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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsJust realized: While Newsom can get a plurality of the vote and still lose
Elder can get a majority for question 2 and also still lose...
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Just realized: While Newsom can get a plurality of the vote and still lose (Original Post)
ColinC
Sep 2021
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JohnSJ
(92,187 posts)1. If a simple majority votes NO, Newsom wins
ColinC
(8,291 posts)2. Yeah that's what I mean.
Of course if newsom got 46% of the vote throught he no vote, but elder got 24% in question two, Newsom will have been the candidate with the most votes and still lose. Of course elder might get a majority in question two but because Newsom got a majority in question 1, he still loses.
JohnSJ
(92,187 posts)4. Our recall process in California must be fixed
ColinC
(8,291 posts)6. Yeah. I hope that becomes a priority at this point
LeftInTX
(25,294 posts)7. Newsom is not part of the second vote
oasis
(49,381 posts)3. $300,000,000 down the drain on a bullshit recall.
JohnSJ
(92,187 posts)5. Yup, something we cannot afford