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For example, if there were 2 million voters at the last general<br>
election, then the thresholds might be<br>
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Year 1: 1 million<br>
Year 2: 1 million<br>
Year 3: 750k<br>
Year 4: 500k<br>
Year 5: 250k<br>
Year 6: 0<br>
<br></blockquote><div><br>Actually, I think that these numbers are too low. A government should have at least one year to do things which are initially unpopular but will work out in the long run. I'd make it 1.5 million in year 1.<br>
<br>For a more complicated solution, a recall could involve 3 steps: signature gathering (test of committment for opponents), polling (preliminary, easier test for breadth of opposition), and voting (official count of opposition). All of these could have thresholds which decrease over time, and the polling threshold would be set to have no election if it were 95% certain the incumbent would win. <br>
<br>They could also have higher thresholds for non-constructive opposition. For instance, 10K "throw the bum out" signatures are worth as much as only 5K "replace him with Mary Smith" signatures.<br></div>
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