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	2003 California recall - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		After several legal and procedural efforts failed to stop it, California's first-ever gubernatorial recall election was held on October 7, and the results were certified on November 14, 2003, making Davis the first governor recalled in the history of California, and just the second in U.S. history.
		This was to be the second gubernatorial recall election in the United States history and the first in the history of California.
		On October 7 the recall election was held, and voters decisively voted to recall Davis and to elect Schwarzenegger as his replacement.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/2003_California_recall (4000 words)

	Recall election - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Along with the initiative and referendum, it was one of the major electoral reforms advocated by leaders of the Progressive movement in the United States during the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
		In 2003, several million citizens petitioned the government for a gubernatorial recall election.
		If enough voters sign the petition, the Speaker of the legislature announces before the House that the member has been recalled and a by-election follows as soon as possible, it gives the opportunity to replace the politician in question.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Recall_election (464 words)

	California Secretary of State - Elections & Voter Information - Elections division - Recall FAQs
		Local elections officials are responsible for counting and verifying recall petition signatures once the proponents obtain at least 10 percent of the total number of required signatures.
		When the Governor is the target of a recall, the California Constitution requires the Lieutenant Governor to set the date of the recall election.
		If the Secretary of State certifies on September 4, 2003 or later that the necessary number of registered voters have signed recall petitions, the Lieutenant Governor has the option of consolidating the recall election with the regularly scheduled March 2, 2004 primary election.
	www.ss.ca.gov /elections/elections_recall_faqs.htm (1202 words)

	Encyclopedia: Recall election (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Article 72 of the 1999 Constitution of Venezuela enables a recall of any elected representative, including the president, and has been used in the Venezuelan recall referendum, 2004: The Venezuelan recall referendum of 15 August 2004 was a referendum to determine whether Hugo Chávez, the president of Venezuela, should be recalled from office.
		The 1921 North Dakota Recall was a recall election of North Dakota Governor Lynn Frazier in 1921.
		Categories: Elections Politics is the process and method of gaining or maintaining support for public or common action: the conduct of decision-making for groups.
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Recall-election (1206 words)

	2003 California recall
		After several legal and procedural efforts failed to stop it, California's first-ever gubernatorial representative recall election was held on October 7, and the results were certified on November 14, 2003, making Davis the first governor recalled in the history of California, and just the second in U.S. history.
		Many candidates also blame the state's poor condition on its failure to adequately control immigration, and are particularly enraged by Davis's seeming complicity in the court ruling striking down most of Proposition 187 as unconstitutional and his more recent support for issuing driver's licenses to illegal immigrants.
		Many observers outside California, and some members of the press, consistently called the recall "chaos" and "madness" as well as a "circus" and "nightmare." With the candidacies of a few celebrities and many regular Californians, the entire affair became a joke to some and an "only in California" event.
	www.brainyencyclopedia.com /encyclopedia/2/20/2003_california_recall.html (3694 words)

	LWV California. California Recall Election October 7, 2003: Basic Facts
		No vote cast in the recall election shall be counted for any candidate unless the voter also voted for or against the recall of Governor Davis.
		If the Governor loses the recall vote, he is removed from office, even if the number of "no" votes on the recall question exceeds the number of votes cast for the winning candidate in the replacement election.
		A recall election is a hybrid that combines features of a ballot measure and a candidate election.
	ca.lwv.org /lwvc/edfund/elections/2003/recall_basic.html (1442 words)

	Election and Recall
		The recall petition shall be returned to the Town Clerk within twenty days after the filing of the affidavit, signed by at least twenty percent of the voters, who shall add to their signatures the address of their residences.
		The nomination of candidates, the publication of the warrant for the recall election, and the conduct of the same, shall all be in accordance with the provisions of General Law relating to elections, and the election to replace the officer(s) sought to be removed shall be held on the same day as the recall election.
		If not recalled, he shall continue in office for the remainder of his unexpired term, but shall not again be subject to recall during his term of office.
	www.wellfleetma.org /Public_Documents/F0000F77D/0008C315-70E903AC (603 words)

	Recall in California
		Petitions for the recall of statewide officers must be signed by voters equal in number to 12% of the last vote for that office, including voters from each of five counties equal in number to 1% of the last vote for the office in that county.
		Asserted that the placement of two initiatives on the recall ballot was inappropriate because the recall election was not a "special statewide election" within the meaning of the applicaple contitutional provisions.
		Election results must be certified, in accordance with Division 15 of the California Elections Code.
	www.igs.berkeley.edu /library/htRecall2003.html (4631 words)

	Justice Department signs off on recall election
		SAN FRANCISCO -- The Justice Department on Monday signed off on the Oct. 7 election to recall Gov. Gray Davis in response to warnings from a federal judge, who questioned whether the voting rights of minorities would be upheld.
		The election, just 50 days away, is forcing some counties to make a number of moneysaving changes that until Monday lacked federal approval.
		The suit claims the machines have error rates as high as 3 percent and seeks a delay until the next regular election in March, when touch-screen or written ballots will be in place as part of separate litigation arising from the Bush-Gore voting debacle in Florida in 2000.
	www.suntimes.com /output/elect/18recall.html (870 words)

	Recall election -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		The movement in (A state in the western United States on the Pacific; the 3rd largest state; known for earthquakes) California was spearheaded by then-Governor (Click link for more info and facts about Hiram Johnson) Hiram Johnson as a "precautionary measure by which a recalcitrant official can be removed".
		In that province, voters in a provincial (Riding a horse as a means of transportation) riding can petition to have a sitting representative removed from office, even a Premier presently leading a government.
		Once one-half of the term of office to which an official has been elected has elapsed, a number of voters representing at least 20% of the registered voters in the affected constituency may petition for the calling of a referendum to revoke that official's mandate.
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/r/re/recall_election.htm (427 words)

	CNN.com - California recall bid succeeds - Jul. 29, 2003
		Election officials from the state's 58 counties reported more than 1.3 million valid signatures, more than the 897,158 needed to trigger the first recall of a governor in California history, said Shelley, who is responsible for administering the recall.
		An 11th-hour effort to block certification of the recall election against Davis failed Wednesday afternoon, when a California state appellate court refused to issue a temporary restraining order in a lawsuit brought by pro-Davis forces.
		Recall supporters had to gather at least 897,158 -- or 12 percent of the total votes cast for governor in 2002 -- to trigger the recall.
	www.cnn.com /2003/ALLPOLITICS/07/23/davis.recall (911 words)

	law.com - 9th Circuit May Put Brakes on Recall Election
		The case is an appeal of U.S. District Judge Stephen Wilson's refusal to halt the unprecedented election.
		Rosenbaum and the ACLU counter that preventing the 2002 general election would have had disastrous consequences: California would have had no one in the House of Representatives, a mostly vacant state Legislature and no governor.
		Though Woods was nowhere to be found after the hearing, the argument had gone so badly for recall backers that Diamond was asked whether he thought the state was "taking a dive" on the case.
	www.law.com /jsp/article.jsp?id=1063212014818 (1430 words)

	RealClear Politics - California Recall Election
		In the end this election is about change and Californians' disgust with the direction of the state and its current leadership.
		After several weeks in late August and early September with not much action in the California Recall, the last ten days (the election was off then back on, followed by last night's debate) has taken the race directly into the stretch run.
		As much as Davis and many on the Democrats' side want to play up the recall as a partisan power grab by the GOP, they are wrong to underestimate the genuine level of disgust and frustration with the management of the states' affairs in Sacramento by people all across the political spectrum, not just Republicans.
	www.realclearpolitics.com /Congressional/California_Recall3.html (2986 words)

	CNN.com - Davis concedes, Schwarzenegger wins - Oct. 8, 2003
		Tuesday's election was the climax of one of the strangest episodes in recent U.S. political history.
		Election officials reported heavy turnout throughout the day, in addition to more than 2.2 million previously cast absentee ballots, California Secretary of State Kevin Shelley said.
		In a speech late Tuesday, before conceding the recall race, Bustamante celebrated the defeat of Proposition 54, a ballot measure that would have prohibited the state from collecting data about race.
	www.cnn.com /2003/ALLPOLITICS/10/07/recall.main (925 words)

	2003 California Recall Election - Facts and History (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		California's first-ever gubernatorial recall election was held on October 7, and after several legal and procedural delays the results were certified on November 14th, 2003, making Davis the first governor recalled in the history of California, and just the second in U.S. history.
		Certification by the Secretary of State must be completed within 39 days of the election, and history indicates that it may take that entire time frame to certify the statewide election results.
		Darrell Issa, who bankrolled the recall effort and who said he would run for governor, abruptly dropped out of the race on August 7.
	www.impeachgraydavis.com (3568 words)

	Recall
		The recall is a direct democracatic procedure that provides for removal of elected officials before their terms expire.
		Depending upon the election results, the official in question is either allowed to complete his term or is removed from office.
		The recall, along with the referendum and initiative, won public attention because of the Populist Party platforms of the 1890s and were advanced as means to stimulate unresponsive government.
	www.u-s-history.com /pages/h881.html (207 words)

	California schedules recall election for Oct. 7
		It will be the nation's first gubernatorial recall election in 82 years.
		Recall supporters say they are planning a ''very aggressive campaign'' with a $15 million budget.
		Davis, who is less than a year into his second term, has seen his approval ratings drop into the 20s amid a slump in the economy and a staggering deficit projected at more than $38 billion.
	www.suntimes.com /output/elect/cst-nws-recall25.html (346 words)

	SignOnSanDiego.com > News > Politics > California's Recall Election
		County Registrar-Recorder Conny McCormack invited the public to watch election workers do a thorough count – mandated by state law – of ballots from 1 percent of the county's precincts.
		If the California recall were an earthquake, it would have registered someplace north of magnitude 7 – big, jarring and capable of altering landscapes.
		The Oct. 7 recall election is the talk of the nation.
	www.signonsandiego.com /news/politics/recall (924 words)

	An Unreformed Election
		Because the October 7 special election exposes California's new-and-improved donor law for what it is: a shabbily-written statute that doesn't hold all of recall's players to an equal standard.
		But, as the recall contest has shown, such "reform" is useless when lawmakers junk it up with loopholes.
		The governor is exempted from the $21,2000 donor limit because state election officials don't consider Davis to be a recall candidate.
	weeklystandard.com /Content/Public/Articles/000/000/003/058wbnlb.asp (675 words)

	FAQ: How Will the Recall Work? - Your nagging questions answered. By Ed Finn (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Once state election officials eliminate incomplete candidacy applications, it's likely that the number will be small enough to fit on a conventional ballot.
		According to California's Elections Code, Section 11320-11327, there must be a line for write-in votes in the list of candidates on the ballot.
		According to California Election Code 11720, whenever a federal Senate term ends prematurely, the governor can select a replacement to hold office until the next general or special election.
	slate.msn.com /id/2086755 (874 words)

	POWER TO THE PEOPLE: The California Recall and Direct Democracy (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Gray Davis is the first governor in the history of California, and only the second governor in the history of the United States, ever to face such a recall election.
		Okay, so, we have the recall, the ballot initiative and the referendum, three instruments of direct democracy that become part of the California Constitution under Republican governor, Hiram Johnson, in 1911.
		I think the recall is a valid thing to be used, but in the state of California, I think we need to digress on this, Peter, for a moment.
	www.uncommonknowledge.org /800/809.html (4107 words)

	Webliographies: Recall Election
		Elections and Voter information from the Secretary of State, Kevin Shelley.
		Special coverage of the October 7 recall election from FindLaw.com.
		Find information about statewide ballot measures as well as the recall election and presidential, congressional, legislative, and local candidates running in California.
	www.pls.lib.ca.us /getanswers/webliographies/recall.htm (269 words)

	California Recall Election Voter Guide
		In 1911, the California Constitution was changed to give the people the right to recall their state elected officials.
		The ballot will consist of two recall related questions, the first asking whether or not to remove Governor Davis from office, and the second asking who should replace Davis if he is recalled.
		A number of counties in California will be using new voting equipment for the October 7th election, and CVF recommends that voters find out what type of technology will be used in their polling places before going to the polls.
	calvoter.org /voter/elections/archive/recall/index.html (368 words)

	Recall Governor Arnold Schwarzennegger
		On election night, the emails poured in at around ten per hour--each one volunteering time and/or money to the recall-Arnold effort (except the one that said, "When I saw your website, I thought the same thing I thought when I saw Jennifer Lopez the first time: 'What an ass!'").
		The recall was simply taking advantage of an unpopular governor at a time when Davis had to make some tough decisions (the same sort of decisions that Schwarzenegger refused to preview for us in his own campaign).
		A runner-up candidate, for example, may realize that a recall is a cheap way to get another shot, on a ballot where, say, a Governor Schwarzenegger would need over 50% of the vote on the first part of the ballot and could not run on the second.
	www.slumdance.com /recallarnold (3618 words)

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