Excerpt from The Recall of Judges: An Essay Read Before the Chit Chat Club of San Francisco
The last session of the California Legislature has submitted to the people of this State, for adoption, an amendment to their Constitution providing that every elective public officer of the State may be recalled, or removed from the office to which he has been elected, and that his successor may be simultaneously elected, by a majority vote of the electors entitled to vote, and who actually do vote, at an election called for that purpose.
The procedure provided in this amendment for recalling the officer and electing his successor, is substantially as follows:
A petition signed by a certain number of the electors who are entitled to vote for a successor of the officer sought to be removed must be addressed to the Secretary of State and be filed with the Clerk or Registrar of Voters of the county or city and county in which the petition is circulated. But no petition can be filed against an officer unless he has held office for six months; except that in the case of members of the Legislature it may be filed after five days from the convening or organizing of the Legislature.
The petition must contain a general statement of the grounds on which the removal is sought. This statement, however, is intended solely to inform the voters of the grounds on which the proposal to recall is founded; and no matter how flimsy it may be, its sufficiency is not open to review.
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