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Accumulate too many absences and you could find yourself summarily removed from the council. Or suppose 10 members submit a petition for recall. No particular requirement of turnout beyond a bare quorum is required for the council to remove you from office.
One-tenth of the students in a council district must sign a petition in order to initiate a recall election. Then, a two-thirds majority must vote to actually remove the representative. If the turnout in this recall election is less than the turnout in the last general election, nothing...
Recall elections should be binding if the turnout exceeds either some fraction of the turnout from the first election or a lesser fraction of the total population of the district. If this turnout is not achieved, the appropriate response should be to hold elections again, not to dismiss the recall...
“The idea for the petition was just a way for me to get my voice and the voices of those who support me heard,” Cremarosa said. “Since the Harvard compliance people are the ones who deal with the Ivy League office...
“[Fry] informed me that my petition would probably not do any good unless it was signed by ‘important’ people such as the university president,” Cremarosa said. “So my revised plan is to get the signatures of...