FONTANA, Calif. (KABC) -- In San Bernardino County, early voting is underway at a brisk pace for California's Nov. 4 Proposition 50 special election .

The ballot measure puts forth a redrawn congressional map that could net Democrats five House seats.

Introduced by Gov. Gavin Newsom and passed by the state legislature in August, the proposed map could give Democrats the opportunity to flip five Republican-held seats. Prop 50 came in retaliation to Texas' mid-decade redistricting, where Republican-friendly maps passed into law this summer could net the GOP five House seats.

"It had to happen very quickly," said San Bernardino County Registrar of Voters Joanna Finwall. "What normally we take three or four months to put together, we had to do in about a month and a half. The most import

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