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The 10th CD is immediately north of the 11 in Contra Costa and Solano Counties See text below and the California's 11th congressional district election, 2006 for an unexpected result that overcame this gerrymander. Carved out with the aid of a computer, this congressional district is a product of California's incumbent gerrymandering.
Federalist newspapers' editors and others at the time likened the district shape to a salamander, and the word gerrymander was born out of a portmanteau of that word and Governor Gerry's surname. Partisan gerrymandering, which refers to redistricting that favors one political party, has a long tradition in the United States.
California lost one. The old gerrymandering was an ugly system with politicians choosing their voters, instead of vice versa. ... But gerrymandering is still a redistricting tool — just for a ...
California Proposition 20 was passed in November 2010. [23] The California State Auditor collected nearly 5,000 completed applications out of over 30,000 [25] for the commission. A three-member panel of auditors reviewed the applications and conducted interviews to establish a pool of 20 Democrats, 20 Republicans, and 20 applicants from neither ...
The California Citizens Redistricting Commission was initially charged with updating the state assembly, senate, and Board of Equalization district boundaries starting with the 2010 census. Another initiative, Proposition 20, passed in 2010, expanded the Commission responsibilities to also include the state Congressional districts.
The latest redistricting cycle is set up to be a disaster for democratic fairness. Unlikely as it sounds, there’s a path to fix it. Opinion | Why Gerrymandering Needs to Land in State Courts
More than a dozen states are changing how they handle incarcerated Americans in redistricting maps, unwinding a practice critics call “prison gerrymandering.”
It has been argued however that in California's case, gerrymandering still continued despite this change. [183] Rhode Island [184] and New Jersey [185] have developed ad hoc committees, but developed the past two decennial reapportionments tied to new census data. Florida's amendments 5 and 6, meanwhile, established rules for the creation of ...