Aug. 19, 2003

Elect to Resolve Balloting Quandary

Forum Column - By Rick Hasen - Noting ambiguities and internal contradictions in the state's recall laws, state Supreme Court Chief Justice Ronald M. George has called on the Legislature, the Constitution Revision Commission and the California Law Revision Commission to turn to recall-law reform after the current recall ends. George made the plea in his dissent from the court's refusal to hear the emergency writ of mandate filed in Burton v. Shelley a few weeks ago.