To gerrymander or not to gerrymander?

That will be the question facing Californians on Tuesday in a special election that could reshape the balance of power in the state and the country for years to come.

Proposition 50, backed by Democratic Governor Gavin Newsom , would temporarily redraw the state’s electoral maps in a way that could help Democrats flip five Congressional seats in the 2026 midterms.

The new maps were hastily hashed out in August in response to a similar redistricting scheme in Texas designed to hand more seats to the Republicans. It’s a fight-fire-with-fire strategy meant to balance the scales in Washington.

As it currently stands, a bipartisan commission is in charge of California’s maps, not the state’s Democratic legislature. Prop 50 would give the legislatu

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