What Went Down At The California Recall Election: Live Results

To your question, Amelia, no state uses RCV for its recalls, but pretty much every state does it “better” than California, such as by holding a normal election where the recall target can run against the replacement candidate(s), or just holding the replacement election on a later date, as Emma and Joshua mentioned.

Yeah, it seems to me like an obvious fix would be to hold one election where anyone — including the recall target — can run, and conducting that election via ranked-choice voting.

So is there a better way to do this? California’s current system is definitely confusing and kludgy — are there other states that do it better?