California Voting: Proposition 20
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Proposition 19: Yes
Official summary:
Removes elected representatives from the process of establishing congressional districts and transfers that authority to recently-authorized 14-member redistricting commission comprised of Democrats, Republicans, and representatives of neither party.
Proposition 20 is very similar to 2008's Proposition 11, now California law, which created an independent commission to draw legislative districts for the California Assembly and Senate. If you liked that idea, you'll probably like this one, and vice versa -- the only difference is that I've now been rejected as a candidate for the commission, so you definitely won't have me to blame if the commission screws up.
Seriously, there is a bit of a difference. The previous vote was to prevent State representatives from drawing their own districts. This vote would prevent our State representatives from drawing Congressional districts. Of course, almost every State representative aspires to Congress, so there's still a big incentive to create 'safe' districts just in case your current US representative retires or finds himself falsely accused of murdering a Congressional intern with whom he's been having an affair. And of course there's still a huge incentive to please powerful Party leaders even if you're not planning a trip to Washington.
Therefore it still seems best to lead them not into temptation and put redistricting into the hands of the same (hopefully impartial) people who are going to be doing it for California's legislative districts anyway.
In 2008, Proposition 11 barely squeaked by, winning 50.9% to 49.1%. I can't find any polling on Proposition 20, and given the closeness of the last vote, it's not at all clear how it will come down.