[Posted on 2021/9/8, 6 days before the recall election. I dropped off my ballot this morning.]
This is not an "election" in any meaningful sense of the word: it's a security vulnerability in CA's government, being actively exploited.
If YES gets > 50% of the vote the governor is removed.
His (sigh) replacement is whoever gets the most votes, among the, what, 40 candidates on the ballot, all completely unqualified. How many votes do you get to spread amongst those 40 candidates? 1. No approval voting, no range voting, nothing.
And there's the minor detail that the governor is of course incentivized to cast the election as illegitimate, and an easy way to do that is to pressure all qualified candidates not to run.
What would a reasonable recall process look like? Try a single Yes/No ballot question. If Yes wins (maybe with more Yes votes than the governor originally got to be elected??), the Lt. Governor immediately takes over for 2-3 months, then have an actual election. ...With approval or range voting so voters can express their full opinion no matter how many candidates run.
This is not an "election" in any meaningful sense of the word: it's a security vulnerability in CA's government, being actively exploited.
If YES gets > 50% of the vote the governor is removed.
His (sigh) replacement is whoever gets the most votes, among the, what, 40 candidates on the ballot, all completely unqualified. How many votes do you get to spread amongst those 40 candidates? 1. No approval voting, no range voting, nothing.
And there's the minor detail that the governor is of course incentivized to cast the election as illegitimate, and an easy way to do that is to pressure all qualified candidates not to run.
What would a reasonable recall process look like? Try a single Yes/No ballot question. If Yes wins (maybe with more Yes votes than the governor originally got to be elected??), the Lt. Governor immediately takes over for 2-3 months, then have an actual election. ...With approval or range voting so voters can express their full opinion no matter how many candidates run.