(08-21-2022, 07:55 PM)HumanSanity Wrote: I don't really think recalls solve the issue the way you're saying it does. If the reason why reconfirmation votes can be abused is, as you put it, about whether or not people are voting on legitimate vs illegitimate basis, then recalls can be too.

We have legal protections in our recall laws that restrict them solely to misconduct or dereliction of duty. A valid case has to be presented when motioning the recall. If somebody also happens to vote to recall for politically motivated reasons, that’s parallel to the actual case made for the recall.

The same can’t be done for reconfirmation votes.

There’s a reason why we restricted the valid reasons to motion a recall. People *did* use recalls as a way to politically punish an official they disagreed with, even sometimes when it personal beef unrelated to government at all. We only have a culture of these officials being politically active *because* we protect them against frivolous recalls. I wouldn’t be eager to return to what we had before we restricted when somebody could be subject to recall. Reconfirmation votes are in effect the same thing.