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Originally Posted by calgarygeologist
This part is not quite accurate because for the recall example of Sawhney it doesn't necessarily require 1/3 of her supporters to switch but rather the recall canvassers just need to find a sufficient amount of eligible voters to sign the campaign. There are around 36,000 eligible voters of which 12,000 or so did not vote last time and a bunch of those folks could be disgusted enough with what is going on.
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Absolutely. I should have rephrased it to say that you would have needed a significant chunk of voters to change their vote. It does not have to be Sawhney supporters changing their vote, the abstainers could change their vote to be against her instead of neutral.
In a perfect world, everyone would be voting which means there wouldn't be a group of sleeping voters that you could awaken in case of a recall and you would actually need voters that supported the MLA to switch. I sometimes wish we would follow Australia's example and make voting mandatory.