Proposition 50 is a direct response to a Republican power grab orchestrated by President Trump and state leaders in Texas, who redrew Congressional district lines to gain five more seats in the U.S. House of Representatives.
Proposition 50 proposes new lines for many of California’s 52 congressional districts, which would negate the five Republican seats drawn by Texas. Under the proposed lines, Democrats could gain up to 5 seats in the U.S. House of Representatives.
I’m pretty sure we’re talking about gerrymandering, but beyond that this is completely confusing. How do states make more seats? Why will the new seats be Democrats? (As in, like, who decided that and how?) Will this just make it go back and forth all the time depending on who’s in power at the moment, or is it actually fair? Is the independent districting commission corrupt?
This specific instance of gerrymandering is to off-set Texas redistricting to add an additional 5 republican seats.
It has to be voted on because we (the state of California) have previously passed a law saying that any redistricting/gerrymandering must be mandated by the people. Otherwise they wouldn’t even need to ask. They could just do it.
They mean it would (statistically) flip five seats to Dems. Which is actually gaining ten seats effectively in a hyper partisan environment by taking away five of theirs but whatever.
https://cadem.org/yes-on-proposition-50-faq/
I’m pretty sure we’re talking about gerrymandering, but beyond that this is completely confusing. How do states make more seats? Why will the new seats be Democrats? (As in, like, who decided that and how?) Will this just make it go back and forth all the time depending on who’s in power at the moment, or is it actually fair? Is the independent districting commission corrupt?
This specific instance of gerrymandering is to off-set Texas redistricting to add an additional 5 republican seats.
It has to be voted on because we (the state of California) have previously passed a law saying that any redistricting/gerrymandering must be mandated by the people. Otherwise they wouldn’t even need to ask. They could just do it.
They mean it would (statistically) flip five seats to Dems. Which is actually gaining ten seats effectively in a hyper partisan environment by taking away five of theirs but whatever.