So Gavin Newsome need to get over 50% of the vote, or he is out. Well, do the math !!
Let's say 10 million people vote, and Gavin only gets 4.9 million of the votes to stay, and 5.1 million vote for him to be kicked out. Well, the rules say that the person that got the most of those 5.1 million votes is the winner.
There are 46 people running, so if 45 of them each got 110,000 votes, that leaves Candidate 46 with 150,000 votes ... and WINS ... so 1.5% of the population gets to decide who is Governor ... how crazy is that ??
