California: Federal Appellate Court rejects challenge to recall law

The Ninth U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals rejected a challenge to the one-day, two-step California recall process, focusing on the inability to vote for the targeted official on the second question. The plaintiff claimed it was a violation of one-person, one vote law. This was rejected, with the court noting, among other points, that term limits are constitutional under California law. California's law used to prevent people who voted no on the first question from voting for the replacement, but that has since been tossed out.