The simplest thing would be for them to go ahead with the "recall" vote, whether to sack the governor or not - a paper and pencil ballot would do for that, put your cross against Sack or Back.

Then if the governor only gets 49% of the vote, they can have a full-scale election with a couple of hundred candidates next March, when they have fixed up some system that can cope with hundreds of candidates.

But I suppose that would be too simple.

Rather a shame you don't have a "recall" provision for Presidents.