California Congressional Redistricting Initiative (2010)
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A California Congressional Redistricting Initiative may be on the November 2, 2010 ballot in California.[1]
Ballot language was filed by Charles Munger. He was a support of Proposition 11 in 2008, which set a new way for political districts to be drawn for California's state legislators and its state Board of Equalizaton.
The Congressional Redistricting Initiative would:
- Add the task of re-drawing congressional district boundaries to the commission created by Proposition 11.
- Define a "community of interest" as "a contiguous population which shares common social and economic interests that should be included within a single district for purposes of its effective and fair representation. Examples of such shared interests are those common to an urban area, an industrial area, or an agricultural area, and those common to areas in which the people share similar living standards, use the same transportation facilities, have similar work opportunities, or have access to the same media of communication relevant to the election process."
Congressional re-districting
If this initiative does not succeed, the next Governor of California and members of the California State Legislature will, as before, choose how to draw lines for however many U.S. Congressional districts California is determined to be entitled to after the 2010 census. Estimates are that California will have somewhere between 52 and 54 seats in congress after those census calculations are completed.[2]
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References
- ↑ Capital Notes, "Redistricting Redux: Congress", September 3, 2009
- ↑ Modesto Bee, "Stage set for epic bloodletting", October 31, 2009
