Saturday, August 09, 2003
The California Recall law is a crock of shit that was not well thought out. There are a lot of legal and procedural questions that still need to be answered and a lot of law suits were filed to answer these questions.
Here is why the recall is Crock O' Shit.
You only need 12% of the last vote for that office to sign a petition to force a recall!! that is soooo stupid. It is soooo easy to force a recall under those standards. Especially with voter turnout rate probably around 50%. This means you only need 6% of all eligible voters to petition to get a recall.
Another problem is a petition is just a list of names that I doubt has an unbiased verification process. In fact one of the lawsuits claims that names on the petition are OUT OF STATERS.
It is way to easy to force a recall.
The recall is going to cost bankrupt California millions of dollars because elections are expensive. Also if Davis wins he is allowed to get reimbursed for all his campaigning expenses.
The recall will pass with a simple majority, this is sickingly less than my thought that it should be 80% to pass.
Once again much to easy to recall someone.
If the recall passes then the candidate with a simple plurality of votes wins. This means if votes are spread out between 15 candidates then someone with only a minority of the votes, lets say 10% could become the next governor.
That doesn't sound like representative democracy at its finest to me.
Here is why the recall is Crock O' Shit.
You only need 12% of the last vote for that office to sign a petition to force a recall!! that is soooo stupid. It is soooo easy to force a recall under those standards. Especially with voter turnout rate probably around 50%. This means you only need 6% of all eligible voters to petition to get a recall.
Another problem is a petition is just a list of names that I doubt has an unbiased verification process. In fact one of the lawsuits claims that names on the petition are OUT OF STATERS.
It is way to easy to force a recall.
The recall is going to cost bankrupt California millions of dollars because elections are expensive. Also if Davis wins he is allowed to get reimbursed for all his campaigning expenses.
The recall will pass with a simple majority, this is sickingly less than my thought that it should be 80% to pass.
Once again much to easy to recall someone.
If the recall passes then the candidate with a simple plurality of votes wins. This means if votes are spread out between 15 candidates then someone with only a minority of the votes, lets say 10% could become the next governor.
That doesn't sound like representative democracy at its finest to me.
