More on the thread topic's subject line:
1. If the recall qualifies, a special election will be scheduled, probably November, 2021, possibly spring 2022.
2. Voters will have two distinct choices: is Newsom booted or retained; if booted voters would choose his replacement among candidates who qualified for the ballot.
I think you forgot the important part about that last.
When it became clear that the Rodents weren't going to be able to keep Gray Davis in office, they made sure that one, and only one, Rodent was on the ballot, Bustamante, and the Rodents made sure that OVER 200 candidates signed up on the GOP side of the ticket...
...and Bustamante was such a nasty candidate that Schwareznegger won the governorship as a RINO Republican anyway...thereby destroying the GOP in California.
Expect similar games this time around.
I for one won't sign this petition. The Rodents want one-party rule, they have one-party rule, in CA and the USA. Swapping out one Rodent for another won't change the problem of one-party rule so why bother? The California of 2021 doesn't have a GOP strong enough to eject Governor Nuisance AND replace him with a Republican, anyway.
For full disclosure I regret voting for Schwarzenegger, I should have followed my first instinct and voted for McClintock...who turned out recently to show off his new anti-Trump RINO clothes....this is the only vote in my life that I've regretted.