What, pray tell, is the onerous burden of having to vote on the recall, so as to
constitutional scholars are challenging a requirement that voters must answer "yes" or "no" on Davis' fate before they can vote on a possible replacement governor. Voters must answer the first question for the second question to count, officials say. A hearing is scheduled for today in San Diego federal court on whether this unfairly penalizes people who want their vote counted on a replacement candidate, but don't want to vote on Davis' fate. These voters, they contend, are being coerced into voting on the recall in order to pick a new governor.
What right, precisely, would be violated here? And why should public monies be spent to deal with this claim?
Kevin Drum mentioned this one yesterday, and I just got around to following-up on it.
Source: Recall puts state law to legal test / One lawsuit says only Bustamante can replace Davis
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