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Chair Buery requests further information on recall election experiences elsewhere
2:04:39
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Chair Richard R. Buery Jr. asks Susan Lerner (Common Cause) for more information on the practical experiences and potential downsides of recall elections in other places, contrasting it with voters' regular opportunity to remove officials every four years. Lerner agrees the threshold for initiating a recall is important and reiterates support for an ethics commission.
- Buery highlights potential negative consequences (chaos, instability) observed with recalls elsewhere.
- Lerner acknowledges the need for careful design, particularly the signature threshold to trigger a recall.
Richard R. Buery Jr.
2:04:39
One thing I would ask, have you considered these as more information about the experience of recall election in other places.
2:04:49
I think the the flip side of that kind of direct recall of a lot of challenging, potentially chaotic political experiences at other places.
2:05:00
And so trying to understand what the risks are as opposed to, as we said, allowing the voters to recall every four years.
2:05:06
Yeah.
2:05:07
I would like to appreciate hearing more about the experience of other people.
Susan Lerner
2:05:10
You know, the question is what is the appropriate level to get a recall?
2:05:14
It's not something that you wanna be able to snap your fingers and get recalled.
2:05:18
And I do wanna say that we do need to reinvent all these, call for a, ethics commission.
2:05:26
Thank you.