California's governor signed a redistricting plan. What happens next?
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Governor Gavin Newsom signed legislation and declared a special election to ask California voters to change the boundaries of five Republican-held congressional districts. The move is framed as a response to a Texas congressional map approved at Donald Trump's urging that seeks five additional Republican US House seats. California lawmakers passed three bills called the Election Rigging Response Act to authorize a November 4 special election, finalize proposed maps, and fund the vote. The proposal asks voters to temporarily grant Democrats authority to redraw districts for the next few elections and to return map-drawing power afterward.
California's governor, Gavin Newsom, on Thursday signed a redistricting plan and declared a special election to ask voters to change the boundaries of five Republican-held congressional districts in the state. The legislative manoeuvre is part of a national battle for control of the US House of Representatives, and comes as a direct response to developments in Texas. At the urging of Donald Trump, lawmakers in the Lone Star state this week approved a new congressional map that aims to give Republicans five more US House seats.
The state's assembly and senate passed three pieces of legislation that comprise the Election Rigging Response Act. The package sets the stage for a 4 November special election. The bills are: assembly constitutional amendment eight, which allows for the election; assembly bill 604, which finalizes Newsom's proposed maps; and senate bill 280, providing funding for the election.
Today was more than drawing lines on a map. It was about drawing a line in the sand to stop Texas, to stop Donald Trump from rigging this election, said Mike McGuire, California's senate president pro tempore, after lawmakers approved the package.
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