California Democrats move to overhaul recall rules

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California Democrats move to overhaul recall rules

Rebecca Falconer at Axios

https://www.axios.com/california-democrats-recall-election-rules-changes-59fde0f8-8b11-4fb7-9298-92c3abd1fd65.html

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California Democrats announced plans Wednesday to change the state's recall election rules, a day after Gov. Gavin Newsom defeated a Republican-backed effort to remove him.

Why it matters: The Democratic governor received 63.9% of the vote to stave off the challenge. State Democratic Assemblymember Marc Berman, who's helping lead the drive to overhaul the process, said in a statement that "a small minority of voters" shouldn't be able "to initiate a costly recall that wastes $276 million."

The GOP-led campaign reached the current threshold of signatures to hold a recall, after garnering over 1,495,709 verified voters signatures — about 12% of all ballots cast in the last gubernatorial election.

The big picture: Berman said he and Sen. Steve Glazer, chair of the Senate Committee on Elections and Constitutional Amendments, had begun efforts to "reform our undemocratic recall process."

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[Lovie777]

1. Thank you! . .......

[skylucy]

2. Yes!

[temporary311]

3. Raise the recall threshold

to 25% of all registered voters, not merely a percentage of voters from a previous election. Also, scrap the election part of it. A successful recall should be like an impeachment, the Lt. Governor then takes over.

[Bluesaph]

4. Impeachment is the answer

We don’t need recalls.

[cojoel]

5. They should get rid of the second election altogether

If the governor is recalled, then the Lt. Governor becomes Governor, just as if the Governor resigned, impeached, or died in office.

[ffr]

6. A million K&Rs! So sick of QOP bullshit wasting hundreds of millions of $$$ in resources.

Every one of those 1.4M maskholes who signed the petition should be held responsible for paying back the commonwealth of California. That'll put an end to this shit!

[Voltaire2]

7. At a minimum they need to have part two require a majority.

Either by a subsequent run off or by ranked voting. As it is the replacement in part 2 could have an absurdly low percentage of the total votes and 'win'.

[JI7]

11. There shouldn't be a part 2. The Lt Gov should take over as Governor

[Sibelius Fan]

8. The Rs were given an EXTRA FOUR MONTHS to collect the needed signatures.

Why?

[CatWoman]

9. K; R

[scarytomcat]

10. needs to be done

the waste of money and time is so sad