SACRAMENTO, CA – Yolo County District Attorney Jeff Reisig joined 29 other elected district attorneys across California this week in publicly opposing Proposition 50, a statewide ballot measure they argue would dismantle the state’s independent redistricting system and allow partisan gerrymandering to return to California.
In a joint letter released October 9, the prosecutors wrote that Proposition 50 “seeks to dismantle the voter-approved California Citizens Redistricting Commission and reinstate partisan gerrymandering—a flawed process rejected by Californians through Proposition 11 (2008) and Proposition 20 (2010).” They warned that the initiative “undermines democracy by prioritizing politicians’ power instead of preserving voter-approved reforms that improve community representation.”
The district attorneys emphasized that the California Citizens Redistricting Commission, established by voters, has “fairly redrawn electoral districts after the last two censuses.” Proposition 50, they wrote, would instead “allow the State Legislature to secretly craft new congressional maps before the next census—dividing communities and silencing voters.”…