But staff members of the Charter Revision Commission have said that the change in the advocate's role is a technicality needed so that the measure to shorten the special-election time frame could occur without the approval of the Legislature.
Commission staff members described that post as ceremonial, and called the change to it a technicality that is needed so that the shortened special-election time frame would not need the approval of the State Legislature.
Rigoni told the court last month this early voting distorted every candidate's right to influence the decision-making process of voters within the election time-frame.
The Election Commission has nearly three weeks to certify the election, a time frame that Gothom Arya, a former election commissioner, said was feasible.
Iraq's state election commission said Thursday that it could take up to three weeks to complete a partial recount of votes from last month's parliamentary election, a time frame that extends the country's political uncertainty and makes it very unlikely that a new government will be seated by the end of August, when the remaining American combat troops are scheduled to withdraw from the country.
The Bush administration insists that elections on that time frame are impractical.
But Afghanistan violated its Constitution as recently as the spring, when Mr. Karzai failed to hold elections within the time frame it mandated.
The presumed spending reductions for fiscal 2013 and beyond will occur after the 2012 presidential and congressional elections and during the time frame when virtually all other federal budget agreements have fallen apart or changed.
"Implicit in a recall election, and explicit in the time frame provided by the California Constitution, is a strong public interest in promptly determining whether a particular elected official should remain in office".
Ayatollah Sistani is reported to have dismissed that letter as one written under pressure from the Americans but also to have said that he might change his mind if a United Nations team came to Iraq and verified the judgment that holding direct elections was unreasonable in the time frame.
In 1999, the Florida Legislature extensively amended the contest statute to specify the grounds authorized for contesting an election and to set up a time frame for contests.
