There’s been a lot of focus on potential ways to reform California’s recall election process, in the wake of Governor Newsom’s victory over the recall. 

However, there’s a new idea that California hasn’t tried, that is starting to gain some traction, to overhaul not just the recall but the way the state runs most of its elections.

We are talking about something called “approval voting,” which is markedly different from traditional plurality or majority elections or even ranked-choice instant runoff elections. It’s already in place in a couple of cities around the country.

For more, KCBS Radio news anchors Patti Reising and Jeff Bell, as well as, KCBS Radio political reporter and host of this segment, Doug Sovern, spoke with Mahendra Prasad, a doctoral candidate in political science at U.C. Berkeley. Prasad wrote an Op-Ed column in the San Francisco Chronicle proposing approval voting for California.