I've been doing my homework on the elctoral procedure and it looks as if it really is a crazy as I'd suspected.

Two questions on the ballot paper (or whatever it is they use for this kind of thing) - one is "should the Governor be sacked?", and the other being "who should replace him?". So if he doesn't get 50% of the votes on the first question - and it's pretty well unheard of for anybody to get 50% of the vote in an election - he's out. Even if he just scraped under that 50% by a single vote.

So then it goes to the question of whonm among the other candudates gets the most votes. And with 250 candidates in the race, it would be quite possible for a winning candidates to come in first with a vote of way below one per cent of the votes...

I don't think that is quite what they mean when they say "only in America."