Gavin Newsom faces a September recall election, a majority of California likely voters would support overhauling the state's recall process to make it harder to remove elected officials mid-term, according to a Public Policy Institute of California poll released Wednesday.

While the PPIC poll didn't ask about voters' views on whether to recall Newsom, another poll this week by Berkeley's Institute of Governmental Studies found him with 50 percent support to 47 percent among likely voters.

The PPIC poll found Newsom had an approval rating among likely voters of 56 percent on jobs and the economy.

Sixty-eight percent of likely voters said they would back the change, including majorities of Democrats, Republicans and independents.

Eighty-six percent said they thought it was good that the state constitution allows the recall of elected officials, although 69 percent — including 90 percent of Democrats and 36 percent of Republicans — said the current recall's price tag is a waste of money.

It has a 4.2 percent margin of error for questions involving the 937 likely voters