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Ask the 'Geek Candidate' for California Governor
No, not Arnold Schwarzenegger. We're talking abut Georgy Russell, who studied computer science at UC Berkeley, often wears ThinkGeek clothing, has a blog, reads Slashdot, and knows how to run Linux. Since this California electoral free-for-all has turned into a worldwide spectator sport as bizarre as any other 'Reality TV' show currently airing, Slashdot might as well get in on the media frenzy and interview a candidate, and Georgy is the obvious choice. We'll email Georgy 10 of the highest-moderated questions, and publish her answers (and, yes, the chosen questions in the same post) as soon as she replies.
Mr. Russell: your campaign seems to have the momentum of a runaway freight train. Why are you so popular?
It's unfair because if 51% of the people vote to recall Davis, then the person with the most votes wins. Davis isn't able to be on the ballot. So lets say arnold has the most votes with 30%. That means that 49% voted for Davis, but he looses to arnold. That isn't fair.
Jack Valenti and Orrin Hatch will be first up against the wall when the revolution comes.
I'd have no problem with the recall if it didn't put the incumbent at such a disadvantage in terms of vote requirements. If he doesn't get 50% of the vote, he loses. 49% of the people can say "no" to a recall, and the winning replacement candidate would win, no matter what percentage of the vote they get. This is ridiculous, they should be seperate ballots entirely. First people should vote on the recall itself, yes or no. Then, a month or whatever later, a new "who should be the governor" election, which Davis can also run in. The only problem with this plan, for me, is that Davis would almost definitely win, and I can't say I really want him as governor.