Gavin Newsom’s congressional maps face their final test at the ballot box

California voters are deciding the fate of Gov. Gavin Newsom’s Proposition 50, which poses one simple question: to gerrymander or not to gerrymander?

Tuesday’s ballot measure asks voters to approve Newsom’s plan to temporarily sideline California’s independent redistricting commission and instead adopt gerrymandered districts drawn to give Democrats an edge in the national race to control the U.S. House of Representatives. Polls close at 8 p.m.

Newsom and his allies say Prop. 50 offsets gerrymandering efforts in Republican-controlled states such as Texas, Missouri and North Carolina that are designed to help the GOP retain control of Congress and pass more of President Donald Trump’s agenda in his last two years.

Opponents of Prop. 50 argue that the measure amounts to a power grab by