This year’s gubernatorial recall election left many Californians scratching their heads -- it cost our state hundreds of millions of dollars, generated zany headlines, diverted the attention of our state’s leadership for months, seemed to be motivated by national issues and funded by national partisans…. and it all ended up with the same situation we started with.

And worse still, because of the specific rules of California’s recall it created the danger that a low-support candidate could win a low-turnout election and become the next governor with support from just a fraction of Californians. Something that was instituted as a tool of popular democracy 100 years ago could have been an instrument of anti-democratic minority rule.

We feel it is time to reform the recall process in our state -- in a way that preserves the spirit of direct democracy and maintains the recall for when it is really needed, but that also makes our elections more representative, strengthens the integrity of our institutions, and makes a responsible use of voters’ time and state resources.

We want your input -- will you take our instant poll today? Do you agree it’s time to reform California’s recall system?