(CALIFORNIA) -- It's time to change things up.
At least that's what California voters feel when it comes to Prop 50, voting 64.4% to make a new congressional district map, solidified with 4,648,886 votes.
OpGov.ai recently reported on the issue, showing that "Gov. Gavin Newsom and heavy hitters like Former President Barack Obama have endorsed the proposition in funded ad campaigns, saying that on this election’s ballot is democracy itself."
National Public Radio (NPR) agrees.
NPR reports, "Van Gessel and others who back Prop 50 told NPR the proposal provides the Democratic-leaning state a rare opportunity to directly counteract President Trump and Republican efforts to redraw political maps in their favor in other states."
The California Democratic Party's Prop 50 website page
California's own L.A. Times also points out that the 2026, 2028, and 2030 elections' "new congressional districts were brought to voters by Gov. Gavin Newsom in response to President Trump pushing Texas into an unusual and controversial mid-decade redistricting."
True or not, what's done is done. And it wasn't cheap.
"Proposition 50, one of the most expensive ballot measures in state history, was initially a coin toss when the state Legislature placed it on the Nov. 4 ballot in August," the L.A. Times reports.
But California wasn't the only notable election. New York City sees its first Muslim mayor, and Vancouver, WA keeps all the dais seats warm with the mayor and incumbents keeping their posts.
OpGov.ai founder Chirag Kathrani also feels some way, saying "while New Yorkers rejected blatant corruption, where the race was between two democrats, one whom Trump endorsed and also threatened the New Yorkers, but the statue of liberty stood strong and many came together to elect a fairly independent candidate."
"On the other end, California gave in to the fear of Trump and voted to remove independent drawing of the boundaries," Kathrani said.
The previous OpGov.ai report on Prop 50 featured a resident named Cici, who did not want her last name printed, speaking bluntly about Prop 50 before the vote was taken.
“The fact that we are openly and explicitly stating that the redistrictings are purely about gaining more R or D votes is just sad, and is such a sad and dire example of how far our country has fallen right now,” she said.
True or not, what's done is done. California voters made their choice, and now they will have to live with it.
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