The California League of Women Voters and Common Cause CA released a report recently summarizing the 2020 redistricting process with reform recommendations for the 2030 commission.
Key recommendations include:
- Redistricting bodies should continue to use live line-drawing, stream public meetings, and facilitate remote participation when feasible to enhance transparency
- During the line-drawing process, prioritizing those areas of the state that involve complex Voting Rights Act analysis and compliance with communities of interest requirements.
- Codifying protections against minority vote dilution into state law to protect the rights of voters of color. The law should take into consideration the state’s multi-ethnic and multi-racial electorate.
- In order to provide transparency to the public, the commission should release summaries of ability-to-elect and racially polarized voting analyses, including which elections were used to conduct those analyses.
Other recommendations include improvements to commissioner recruitment, public participation, outreach, staffing, training, and onboarding.
For news, litigation documents, district maps, and more information about California Redistricting visit the California Redistricting Almanac Page. The Almanac home page for all 50 states is here.
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