The amount of signatures required to start a recall election in California is one of the lowest in the country. California democrats vow to change this “weaponized” recall system after Gavin Newsom (D) survived the latest recall. This information is from The Guardian. Here is an excerpt:

Hours after Gavin Newsom beat back a historic recall election that could have cost him his job, Democrats in California vowed to reform the system allowing a sitting governor to be challenged.

The changes could include increasing the number of signatures needed to force a recall election, raising the standard to require wrongdoing on the part of the officeholder and changing the process that could permit someone with a small percentage of votes to replace the state’s top elected official.

 “I think the recall process has been weaponized,” Newsom said a day after his decisive victory.

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