Prop 20- November 2, 2010 California Proposition 20 Review

Ken Cooley, Mayor of the City of Rancho Cordova, CA provides a balanced review of Proposition 20.

Category:

News & Politics

Tags:

• Redistricting
• Congress
• California
• Proposition
• Prop
• 20
• Rancho
• Cordova
• community of interest

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It would be most fair to have the party affiliation of the 14 redistributing commission members AND 9 approval commissioners be directly proportional to the party affiliation of the state's voters overall at the time of election. Otherwise, the secondary and other minority parties would have disproportionately greater influence at the state congressional district level at the get-go and would discard the one-person, one-vote concept. Why isn't anyone proposing this proportional approach instead?

[junsungwong]

@aperry712 I'm pretty sure that this is a layman's summary of prop 20: right now the voting districts in California are decided by 14 randomly chosen accountants.

prop 20 will keep that continuing.

if prop 20 fails, then the California Legislature will choose the boundaries. These people are voted in.

You vote yes on prop 20 if you trust the randomly chosen accountants, you vote no if you trust the current voted-in politicians.

[aperry712]

I'm still confused, Layman's terms on the ballot.

[Eaks2215]

Thanks mr Cooley, this cleared up some things for me, and helped me understand the prop better.