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From KQED in San Francisco, I'm Nina Kim.

Coming up on forums, special recall election coverage, California's recall process has been called confusing, expensive, and undemocratic,

as voters realized a governor elected by a clear majority could be replaced by a fringe candidate

earning a sliver of the vote. This hour will look at proposals to change the recall process,

including how it makes the ballot and who gets to replace the leader of the nation's most popular state.

We get your thoughts after this news.

We're going to be. This is special election coverage on forum. I'm Mina Kim. Governor Gavin Newsom's decisive defeat of the recall is fueling questions of how and why the recall made the ballot at all,

adding to criticisms the more than $276 million price tag so far to even hold the election.

As we got closer to Election Day, Berkeley IGS polled Californians and asked them how they felt

about the right to recall elected officials

and about proposals for reform. And joining me now to talk about the results is Mark D. Camillo,

director of Berkeley's Institute for Government, Intergovernmental Studies. Hi, Mark D. Camillo.

Thanks so much for joining us. Thank you very much, Mina. So, Mark, on the first question, the right to recall a governor and other elected officials,

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