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An initiative to repeal the non-partisan redistricting in future State Senate elections was confusingly worded and presented ( voting "No" would not continue the current neutral party redistricting to overturn the California State Senate redistricting plan approved by the California Citizens Redistricting Commission and so restoring the status ...
The odd shapes—distended projections and non-natural feature-based wiggly boundaries—of California Senate districts in southern California (2008) have led to complaints of gerrymandering. Illinois's 4th congressional district has the moniker "the earmuffs" and amounts to packing of two mainly Hispanic areas. [115]
The old gerrymandering had a very bad stench and is still practiced in many states including Texas, columnist George Skelton writes. Column: Gerrymandering still exists in California. But reforms ...
In November 2008, California voters passed Proposition 11, authorizing a state redistricting commission. [1] The California State Auditor (CSA) adopted regulations on 20 October 2009. [22] The Applicant Review Panel was randomly selected on 16 November 2009.
This was substantiated, for example, in California, where the average percentage of competitive districts went from 5.6% in the decade preceding the 2010 introduction of an independent commission ...
Nov. 27—The state Supreme Court affirmed a District Court judge's decision that said while Democratic lawmakers tried to dilute Republican voting power in one of the state's three congressional ...
One state in which gerrymandering has arguably had an adverse effect on electoral competition is California. In 2000, a bipartisan redistricting effort redrew congressional district lines in ways that all but guaranteed incumbent victories; as a result, California saw only one congressional seat change hands between 2000 and 2010.
Seven Democrats and one Republican are vying in the top-two primary March 5 to replace termed-out Democrat Steven Bradford in state Senate District 35 in South L.A. County.