California Democrats Waste No Time Launching Recall Election Law Reform After Newsom’s Victory

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California Democrats Waste No Time Launching Recall Election Law Reform After Newsom’s Victory

Penny Starr 16 Sep 2021

Only hours after Gavin Newsom survived a recall election, Democrats in California got to work to change the laws around the procedure to unseat an elected governor for what they say, “allow a vocal minority of conservative voters to perpetually disrupt state government.”

The San Francisco Chronicle reported that work started on changing laws that have been in place for more than 100 years on Wednesday:

    The list of possible reforms legislators want is long. Among the top ideas: raising the number of signatures needed to qualify for the ballot, requiring a runoff between the top two vote-getters to replace the governor and allowing the lieutenant governor to take over if the governor is recalled.

    State Sen. Steve Glazer and Assembly Member Marc Berman, who chair the Legislature’s election committees, announced they would hold joint, bipartisan hearings this fall to vet those and other possible changes.

    Both legislators said their aim is to prevent the recall process from becoming an often-utilized tool for partisan gain or a vehicle to elect a replacement governor with far less than a majority of the vote.

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https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2021/09/16/california-democrats-launching-recall-election-law-reform-newsom-victory/

[SZonian]

"...often-utilized..."?

Hardly, but it'll pass regardless with the rats having a super-majority.

CA is done, put a fork in it.

[LMAO]

CA is done, put a fork in it.

Have to agree with this

Any politician, regardless of party, with Gavin Newsom’s record, should be run out on a rail

[PeteS in CA]

Recall is in CA's constitution, which the legislature, by itself, cannot change. It requires a vote by the people, and I won't venture to guess how that would turn out (two years ago CA voters upheld the death penalty and upheld a law forbidding the use of race in state contracts and university admissions, so CA voters are less predictable than stereotypes make us out to be).