[CCWG-ACCT] Notes-Recordings-Transcript links for CCWG ACCT Session #14 24 February

Bruce Tonkin Bruce.Tonkin at melbourneit.com.au
Sun Mar 1 23:49:56 UTC 2015


Hello Greg,


>>  Recall elections do occur in the US, albeit relatively infrequently, and the right to have a recall election is generally a state law issue.  The Governor of Wisconsin survived a recall election in 2012: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wisconsin_gubernatorial_recall_election,  

Thanks for the references.

I see that the threshold for a recall in the Wisconsin case was a petition that needed 540,000 signatures:

“In less than half of the allotted time (60 days) to collect signatures, recall organizers report collecting more than 500,000 signatures, leaving roughly one month left to collect the remaining 40,000 signatures needed to force a recall vote. On January 17, 2012, United Wisconsin, the coalition that spearheaded the recall effort, along with the Democratic Party, said that one million signatures were collected, which far exceeded the 540,208 needed, and amounted to 23 percent of the state's eligible voters, 46 percent of the total votes cast in the 2010 gubernatorial election and just shy of the 1.1 million votes earned by Walker”


>>  There are a fair number of lower-profile, more local recall elections each year in the US, and some do succeed: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Recall_election.

Interesting to see that most of these are based on some form of petition:

“Recalls, which are initiated when sufficient voters sign a petition, have a history dating back to the ancient Athenian democracy  and are a feature of several contemporary constitutions.”

Regards,
Bruce Tonkin




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