Rob Richie and David Daley had this information in FairVote. Here is an excerpt:

The signatures are confirmed, and Gov. Gavin Newsom faces a recall vote this fall. Now all that remains is the months-long campaign process and spending tens of millions of taxpayer dollars. California recall elections are needlessly complicated, and risk replacing an elected official with someone even less popular.

There’s a better way, but let’s start with the law as it is. Voters face a unique, two-question election. First, they have to cast a ballot — yes or no — on whether Newsom stays. Then, they are asked to choose his replacement, should the governor be recalled.

The first question is a simple up-or-down. If a majority of voters support the governor completing his term, the recall ends. But if the majority wants him out, things get more interesting. California’s next governor would be whoever gets the most support in that second question, whether they receive a majority or not. Since the ballot is likely to be extraordinarily crowded — some 135 candidates sought the governorship during the state’s last recall battle, in 2003, when voters replaced Democrat Grey Davis with Republican Arnold Schwarzenegger — it’s likely that the new governor would fall far short of 50 percent.

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