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...think we do. I think we will have a really high turnout among Canadians. I think [Mike] brings an important diversity to the ticket. It’s hard being on an all white-male ticket. Mike really rounds out the diversity angle having that Canuck thing going...
Accumulate too many absences and you could find yourself summarily removed from the council. Or suppose 10 members submit a petition for recall. No particular requirement of turnout beyond a bare quorum is required for the council to remove you from office...
Second, the requirement that the recall turnout equals the turnout in the original election stacks the deck in favor of incumbents, and it should be scrapped. The general elections bear the imprimatur of the Undergraduate Council, our nominally representative student government. The elections themselves are promoted ad nauseum by the council and a compliant press—not to mention exhortations to vote from hopeful candidates. A recall election could not hope to get this much free publicity. Representatives facing removal need not even defend themselves against the charges leveled against them in order to survive the recall. In fact...
...least two things need to change. First, the two-thirds vote requirement is too stringent, and should be relaxed. The typical council representative during the last general election was elected with two or three dozen first-place votes out of a turnout of about 100. A suitably intransigent voting bloc could collude to keep their favored representative in office even if the majority of the district desired otherwise, but could not muster the requisite supermajority...
Recall elections should be binding if the turnout exceeds either some fraction of the turnout from the first election or a lesser fraction of the total population of the district. If this turnout is not achieved, the appropriate response should be to hold elections again, not to dismiss the recall petition as merely reflecting some fickle and unimportant whim...