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Aug 13 21:45 UTC 2003

And another point.  Shouldn't California's recall laws stipulate that a 
runoff be held if no candidate in a recall election gets 50%?  How can 
anyone who gets elected with ten percent or less of the vote possibly 
claim to have a mandate?  It seems to be that this sets up whoever gets 
elected to be ineffective from the start.  If noone on the recall vote 
gets fifty percent, and its highly unlikely anyone will, they should 
have a runoff between the top two vote getters.  And if the second 
place person got only 4%, and there were 48% of voters voting against 
recalling the Governor, it could be argued that the Governor is in 
essence the first or second place vote getter and he should be in the 
runoff against whoever won the recall ballot.