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The 2024 Oakland mayoral recall election was a successful special recall election to remove Oakland mayor Sheng Thao from office less than two years into her first four-year term. It was held on November 5, 2024 concurrent with the statewide and nationwide general elections .
The recall election has become a referendum not just for Crye, who won his seat by 90 votes in 2022, but also for the push for hand-counting ballots, which has been gaining popularity across rural ...
A recall election (also called a recall referendum, recall petition or representative recall) is a procedure by which voters can remove an elected official from office through a referendum before that official's term of office has ended. Recalls appear in the constitution in ancient Athenian democracy. [1]
[citation needed] Most states that permit the process require a 2/3 majority vote. [citation needed] Not all amendments proposed will receive sufficient support to be placed on the ballot. Of the 26 proposed petitions filed in the state of Florida in its 1994 general election, only three garnered sufficient support to be put to the vote. [8]
House Republicans will vote tomorrow on ousting their conference chair, Congresswoman Liz Cheney. House GOP Leader Kevin McCarthy confirmed the vote in a letter to his colleagues. Cheney is facing ...
The first-term council member faces a recall vote in one week after being named in an investigative report detailing corporate influence in Anaheim politics. (Michael Blackshire / Los Angeles Times)
The 2021 California gubernatorial recall election was a special recall election that started in August 2021 and ended on September 14, 2021, when the majority of California voters chose not to recall incumbent Democratic governor Gavin Newsom, elected for the term January 2019 to January 2023. Many hopefuls took on the incumbent, to become the ...
The attempt to recall Vos came after a Racine County-based group focused on 2020 election conspiracies ran television ads threatening to unseat the speaker if he did not advance articles of ...