Congressional districts and government legislative bodies should be apportioned substantially on population. We oppose partisan and racial gerrymandering that strips rights away from voters.
Redistricting, the process of redrawing election district boundaries every ten years to ensure that districts have equal populations, is crucial to our democracy. AB 764 (Bryan & Cervantes) and AB 1248 (Bryan & Allen) would help ensure that local jurisdictions adopt electoral maps that result in fair representation for all Californians. Ask Governor Newsom to sign AB 764 and AB 1248.
The League of Women Voters of Fresno held a meeting featuring Jonathan Mehta Stein - CA Common Cause and Cathy Caples from the League of Women Voters of Fresno. The presentation gives background on what is redistricting and why you should care and how you can get involved.
This week, during a meeting with one of our partners, Common Cause Rhode Island, a question came up that was a bit of a head-scratcher for me, so I posed the question to Samyuktha Mahadevan, a Campaign Coordinator for the National League of Women
