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Originally Posted by Resolute 14
I think the original plan by the Alliance was one third of the voting eligible population. Not sure what the bill they will submit will set as the threshold.
However, your reasoning is badly flawed. The second place finisher having 30% of the vote would not come close to having enough signatures for a recall for several reasons:
1. He was only supported by 30% of the 50% of the population that bothered to vote, not 30% of the overall population.
2. To assume that everyone who voted for that candidate would automatically support a recall is, in a word, stupid.
3. The time, cost and effort required to create, organize and pass a recall petition would be enormous. It would only pass if there was sufficient reason to do so.
4. If a losing candidate or one of their supporters started a recall petition simply for losing the election, they could not hope to get enough support to get it through. The average voter may be dumb, but he isn't so dumb as not to realize that that is just a very petty and selfish move.
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I read that the threshold will be 1/3. In that case what is the point here? If we can hardly get much more than that out for an election in the first place this law will never be used. Basically its a pointless exercise. Why wouldn't the Tories support this?