Joshua Spivak has this article in The Hill, about the pending lawsuit to overturn the California recall system. The article is interesting because it reveals that quite a few other states have similiar provisions.
Joshua Spivak has this article in The Hill, about the pending lawsuit to overturn the California recall system. The article is interesting because it reveals that quite a few other states have similiar provisions.
Recall elections should use approval or ranked choice voting in the replacement election. That would minimize the election of a candidate with less than 50% of the vote.
In fact, it might be useful to use a hybrid approval/ranking vote system in recall replacement elections. How might that work? Voters could have an unlimited number of #1 votes, which would be counted as approval votes. A candidate would have to get the largest number of approval votes, plus a majority of all the voters to win on the first round. If no one had a majority, then the ranked voted would be counted until some candidate had a majority, or all ranked votes were exhausted.
This makes me think that the best voting system in all elections with primaries is to use approval voting in the primaries (whether open or closed), with the leading candidates of each party, plus any other candidates who get a majority of approval votes from all voters, advancing to the final election, which would use ranked choice voting.